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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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auDA Backs Removing a .com.au Allocation Route. Domain Monetization Stays Allowed.
auDA approved in principle a recommendation deleting the clause that lets a .com.au domain match a service, goods or premises. In the same package it kept domain monetization allowed, a pairing the panel's minority calls inconsistent. No rule has changed yet.
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Is auDA About to Nuke the .com.au Namespace? The $500 Million Red Tape Nightmare
auDA has voted to tie .com.au and .net.au eligibility to an exact match with a company name, ASIC business name or trademark. Domains registered against a product, event or trust structure would no longer qualify, and the cleanup lands on registrars and hosts.
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Montenegro Is Taking .me Back: A State Company Will Run the Million-Domain ccTLD
.me earned 114 million euros since 2008 and the state kept about a third. Montenegro has now started building a state company to take over its ccTLD from GoDaddy and Identity Digital, in the name of digital sovereignty and a bigger share of the money.
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Freenom Is Back, and No Longer Free. The Free-Domain Registry Behind Years of Phishing.
Freenom gave away millions of domains and became the internet's biggest source of phishing, until Meta sued and it promised to quit. Now, per Domain Incite, it is back, running .tk, .cf and .gq again from €8.22 a year. What changed is what fueled the abuse: the domains are no longer free.
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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.
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A US Sanction, a Montenegrin Domain, and Why Every t.me Link Went Dark
Telegram's t.me domain went offline worldwide, placed on serverHold by the .me registry. The likely trigger is a US OFAC sanction on a cybercrime group whose t.me address was listed, enforced through a Montenegrin ccTLD run by US firms Identity Digital and GoDaddy. One URL, a whole domain down.
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European domain growth slows
As of early 2024, registered domains across EU member state countries have risen to an estimated 82 million, marking a 0.4% increase over the previous year. This growth has been unevenly distributed, with countries like Poland, France, and Italy leading the pack, primarily through their national ccTLDs.
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