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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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cPanel AI Is Generally Available. Meridian Is in the License. Nova Runs on Credits Nobody Has Priced.
cPanel declared cPanel AI generally available on September 17. Meridian, the AI Assistant, AI App Hosting and MCP sit inside the ordinary license, while Nova is partner-only and metered in AI credits whose wholesale price neither cPanel nor WebPros has published.
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Ask nginx Which Config It Is Running. Not Every Build Will Answer.
nginx can now be asked which configuration it is actually running, a question that had no answer before 1.31.5, and a reload now returns an HTTP status code with the logs attached. The Control API came out of the paid NGINX Plus release, and it ships with no authentication of its own.
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cPanel Patches a Root-Level Flaw in Domain Parking: One Customer Account With Domain Permissions Was Enough
cPanel patched CVE-2026-65643: an account holder able to add parked or addon domains could create arbitrary files and reach root, taking every site on the server. All supported versions were affected. No CVE record, no CVSS and no exploitation status published so far.
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Plesk Patches Three Flaws That Start From an Ordinary Customer Account
Plesk's August 25 advisories cover three flaws reachable from an ordinary customer account: arbitrary file reads, cross-tenant database access, and root through two extensions. The extension fixes ship separately, and administrators report the Migrator update is not arriving.
Industry reports
The Field of cPanel Alternatives Keeps Widening. A Brand-New One Comes From Inside cPanel’s Ecosystem.
Since cPanel moved to per-account pricing in 2019 and raised it most years since, the control panel has become a cost decision. Some hosts run their own panel, others license one of a widening set of independents, though the shift is directional rather than a measured stampede.
Expert's Voice
The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 3: The Playbook
In the final part of the series, BrandForge CEO Michiel Grotenhuis turns to the practical question: what do you actually do about rising hosting costs? He borrows from streaming, SaaS, and retail, shares what the community is doing, and argues for reducing dependence on any single vendor.
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The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 1: Why Your Costs Keep Climbing
Almost everything hosts depend on has gone up fast: energy, hardware, consolidation, and above all software licensing, from cPanel's post-2019 climb to Broadcom's VMware reset. Part one of a three-part series on what is really driving hosting costs up.
Industry reports
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.77 Ships. Pricing Up 26 Percent. AI Copilot Extension Coming.
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.77 addresses European accessibility compliance, removes the APS Catalog, and expands TuxCare legacy PHP support. It lands four months into the 26 percent licensing price increase, with an AI Copilot extension announced for 2026 but not yet shipped.
Software reviews
AdminBolt Ships a Dashboard AI Assistant and WhatsApp Hosting Controls
AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.
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Is Webuzo any alternative to cPanel? See what hosting pros think about it in February 2026
A recent discussion on WebHostingTalk - “I need feedback on Webuzo” - triggered an interesting exchange among hosting operators testing Webuzo as a potential alternative to cPanel. Reading through the thread and
Industry reports
adminbolt Beta: Giving hosts back control (and revenue)
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