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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
Industry reports #domains#godaddy
Ranked by domains on their nameservers, GoDaddy leads with 73.1 million. Ranked by hosting attribution it falls to 3.5 million, but that column records whose address space a site is served from. We resolved a sample of GoDaddy's domains: 89% land in blocks registered to Amazon.
IONOS Is Cutting 12% of Its Workforce Five Weeks After Raising Its Revenue Outlook.
Stock reports #ai#cloud
IONOS will reduce headcount from about 3,800 to about 3,350, spending around EUR 35 million once to save up to EUR 30 million a year from 2027. IONOS says the savings will be reinvested, including in AI product development and cloud, and its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast is unchanged.
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August 2 Is Still Real: What the AI Act’s Big Date Means for Hosting After the Omnibus
The Digital Omnibus moved the AI Act's high-risk obligations to December 2027, and much of the industry heard "delay." But August 2, 2026 still activates Commission fines up to 3% of turnover for GPAI providers and transparency duties for new AI systems. Where hosts sit, step by step.
Expert's Voice
The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 2: Should You Actually Pass It On?
Part two of the hosting price squeeze series tackles the decision that keeps founders up at night: pass rising costs on, absorb them, or find a middle path. A segment-by-segment guide to raising prices without breaking customer trust.
Industry reports
A Government ID for Every .ru Domain, and a Warning for Every Country Code
From September 1, everyone holding a .ru domain must verify their identity through a Russian government system or lose the name, and foreign owners are the ones most exposed. It is a blunt reminder that a country-code domain carries the politics of the country behind it.
Security
A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
A critical flaw in WordPress core, the first of its kind in nearly a decade, triggered a rare forced update to millions of sites. Within 72 hours it was mass exploitation, because forced updates never reach everyone. Why patched and safe are not the same thing.
Security
A 16-Year-Old KVM Escape, and OVHcloud’s Week-Long Patch Across a Million VMs
A 16-year-old flaw in KVM let a customer with admin access escape their virtual server and seize the host on both Intel and AMD. OVHcloud built a fix and rebooted around a million VMs in a week to deploy it, and the campaign shows the quiet choice every host makes between your consent and your safety.
Security
A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
F5 patched CVE-2026-42533, a heap-overflow flaw in Nginx rated 9.2 that has sat in the code since 2011. It is unauthenticated and remote, but only triggers under a specific regex-map configuration, so not every server is exposed. With a proof-of-concept exploit due in early August, here is who actually needs to patch.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Opens Its Domain API to AI Agents, With Guardrails Built In
GoDaddy's new Developer Platform lets AI agents search, register, and manage domains without a browser. Unlike the first wave's "no human required" pitch, it ties every registration to a recorded consent object and scoped tokens, the domain version of the authorization pattern agentic commerce is converging on.
M&A
Green Olive Tree Acquires ZebraHost for $1.1 Million, Nearly Doubling in Size
Green Olive Tree, a veteran-owned managed host, has acquired ZebraHost LLC for $1.1 million, closing June 22 and nearly doubling its revenue. Struck as ZebraHost's 76-year-old founder retires, it shows the founder-succession M&A quietly consolidating hosting's small end.
Security
Roundcube’s Zero-Click Webmail XSS, and How Fast It Reached cPanel
A zero-click stored XSS in Roundcube webmail, scored CVSS 7.2, lets a crafted plain-text email run script in a victim's session on preview. Roundcube fixed it on July 5, cPanel shipped it in 134.0.45 on July 14, and standalone installs still need patching separately.
Partners
Top 5 Mistakes Hosting Companies Make That Drives Churn and How to Fix Them
Customers rarely churn because they found a better host; they leave because they felt lost, overwhelmed, or misled. Extendify lays out five fixable experience gaps, from confusing plans to invisible security, that decide whether a first-time customer stays or disappears.
M&A
The Balance Sheet Behind Your Renewal Invoice: Who Owns the Hosting Industry, and What It Owes
Your renewal invoice has a balance sheet behind it. We mapped hosting's private-equity owners, their debt, and the 2028 maturity wall against our own Renewal Multiplier Index: the most leveraged operator restructured in December, the tooling layer is reportedly funding sponsor dividends, and the debt-free cohort is quietly taking the customers.
Industry reports
The Free Tier Isn’t Dying Loudly. It’s Being Repriced Quietly. And the Developer Pipeline Goes With It.
Fly.io removed free for new accounts and Netlify doubled credit costs to halve free capacity, while Render, Cloudflare, and a reversing Railway keep free as strategy. The quiet unwinding of developer free tiers decides where the next CTO generation's defaults form.
Security
Three Unauthenticated File Flaws in a Week, and One Root Cause: Validation by Shortcut
Between July 7 and 9, three serious unauthenticated flaws surfaced in file-handling code: an RCE in Blocksy Companion Pro, arbitrary file deletion in Frontend File Manager, and an SSRF in Monsta FTP. Different codebases, one root cause, and a blast radius that lands on the hosting provider.
Software reviews
Extendify Launches Code, a White-Label Vibe-Coding Platform for Hosts
Extendify's new Code platform lets any hosting provider sell prompt-to-app building under its own brand, deployed through WHMCS or API. It answers the customer drift toward vibe-coding tools, and it hands hosts new revenue along with the support and security risks of AI-built software.
Industry reports
DigitalOcean Lands Nine-Figure AI Deals as Its Backlog Jumps Tenfold
DigitalOcean, long the cloud for developers, says its preliminary Q2 backlog will top $800 million, up more than tenfold, on multiple nine-figure AI-inference commitments. Revenue growth is re-accelerating to 29 percent, and it now sells itself as an "AI-native cloud" rather than raw GPU rental.
Security
Hostinger Turns On Patchstack npm Scanning for Node.js Apps by Default
Hostinger has built Patchstack's vulnerability intelligence into its Node.js hosting, scanning npm dependencies by default. It targets the unmonitored supply-chain risk of apps shipped fast with AI help, and fits Patchstack's push to embed its security inside large hosts rather than as an upsell.
Industry reports
team.blue Reports the Climate Trade-Off of Consolidation
Europe's hosting groups have consolidated for a decade and now want science-based climate targets to match. But growth by acquisition works against it: each deal adds emissions to the total they have pledged to cut. team.blue's report documents the bind, making it the sector's test case.
M&A
Automattic Has Taken Over WebHosting.com. The Plan Is Still a Coming-Soon Page.
WebHosting.com, a premium one-word .com long dormant under AT&T, now resolves to an Automattic-branded "coming soon" page, confirming the WordPress parent controls it. There is no announcement, price, or stated plan. The move fits Automattic's broader hosting push, but its plans are unconfirmed.
Events
CloudFest Americas Takes Shape: Miami’s Speakers and Themes So Far
CloudFest Americas lands at Miami's Ice Palace Studios on November 11-12, 2026, the Americas edition of Europe's flagship cloud festival. Organizers expect 2,000+ attendees across keynotes, roundtables and a NamesCon co-location, with a five-theme program spanning AI, security and growth.
Industry reports
AI Agents Now Run Hosting Operations, Not Just Content. Pressable’s June Update Is the Tell.
Pressable, an Automattic hosting lab, expanded its MCP integration in June so AI agents can run caching, backups, SSL, WP-CLI and bulk operations across a WordPress portfolio. With Rocket.net shipping a native MCP server too, the hosting control panel is becoming an interface built for agents.
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