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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Automattic’s Board Put Matt Mullenweg on Paid Leave. He Still Leads the WordPress Project.
Automattic's board has put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, with chief financial officer Mark Davies as interim chief executive. The change stops at the commercial company: no change has been announced to his leadership of the WordPress project or to his control of WordPress.org.
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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.
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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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Automattic Turns the WordPress Admin Into a Desktop Software
Automattic's Desktop Mode turns /wp-admin into a desktop OS: resizable windows, a dock, virtual desktops, and AI search. Built in three days during Radical Speed Month, it signals the same UX rethink behind WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.9.
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Stop Selling Hosting, Start Selling the Outcome – Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud at Automattic
At Hosts Del Mar, Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud at Automattic, on why hosting companies should stop selling hosting, how the Abilities API will let AI agents live inside WordPress, and why turnkey hosting for registrars keeps domains on the open web.
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WP Engine Counsel Seeks WordPress Foundation Dissolution as WordCamp Europe Opens
WP Engine pursues WordPress Foundation dissolution. The June 4 hearing coincides with WordCamp Europe's opening day in Kraków.
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Mullenweg Calls WordPress “Mediocre Crap” and Overrules Core Committers on 7.0
Matt Mullenweg called WordPress development "boring or mediocre crap," then overruled core committers to add Akismet to the WordPress 7.0 Connectors screen, weeks before the May 20 release.
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WP Engine claims Automattic planned royalty fees for at least 10 other hosting companies
TL;DR: the 8% royalty proposal from 2024 is old news - but WP Engine now claims that Automattic planned similar demands for at least 10 other hosting competitors. The latest update also
Automattic and Wayback Machine teamed up to launch Link Fixer
TL;DR - new WordPress connects websites through API with the Internet Archive. When an outbound link dies, instead of 404s, users are redirected to an archived copy of the resource. For public
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Automattic launches AI site builder
There’s a quiet but powerful change happening in the world of website building. Step by step, one company after another is switching from traditional drag-and-drop tools to smart, AI-powered builders. This week, Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com – joined the race in a big way.
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WP Engine triumphs in legal battle with Automattic
WP Engine, one of the leading companies offering hosting services and tools for websites built on WordPress, shared important news on its LinkedIn profile. The court granted WP Engine’s request for a preliminary injunction, fully restoring access to WordPress.org for the company.