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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules

Natalia Nowak · 29 Sep 2026 · 6 min read

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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.

Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules

Natalia Nowak · 29 Sep 2026

Other #automattic#web-hosting

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.

Natalia Nowak · 15 Sep 2026

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.

Natalia Nowak · 11 Sep 2026

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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You Don’t Own Your .io or .ai. You Rent a Country’s Politics.

by Łukasz Nowak · 2 Jul 2026 · 12 min read

RFC 1591 says a country-code domain is held in trust, not owned. Build a brand or infrastructure on .io, .ai, or .ly and you rent a foreign government's politics, with a retirement mechanism, seizures, and price ratchets to prove it. The .io Chagos scare was a reprieve, not a resolution.

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