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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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Proton’s Frankfurt Outage Report: 20 Minutes to Critical, and Hardware Too Scarce to Sacrifice
Proton's outage report is direct about what went wrong: a night-time filter change on both compressors killed the cooling, AI-era density cut the time-to-critical from hours to 20 minutes, and engineers chose to power servers down rather than lose hardware the AI boom has made hard to replace.
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A Chiller Failure in Phoenix Took Down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP.
Storms knocked out the chillers at RadiusDC's Phoenix site on August 13, and at least four providers went offline behind that failure. The operator's only detailed account appeared on a tenant's status page, and no reason-for-outage report has followed.
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When 64GB of RAM Costs €3,000: The Shortage Behind Hostinger’s Biggest Server Order
Server costs up 5-6x, components up to 8x, lead times at 30 weeks: Hostinger explains its largest hardware order in our Q&A. COO Aivaras Šimkus on €3,000 RAM, scaling from 5 to 7 million customers, and why certainty is now the main advantage.
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An AWS Region Has Been Offline for Months, and the Cloud’s Address Is No Longer a Technicality
The war between the US and Iran has kept an entire AWS cloud region offline for months, something ordinary outages never do. Why losing one region can take an unprepared business down, and what real disaster recovery requires.
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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.
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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.
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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fix the Data-Center Queue
FERC's June 18 orders give six US grid operators 60 days to fix large-load interconnection, including the cost-shift fight over whether data centers or ratepayers fund grid upgrades. For hosting, the queue is the binding constraint on compute supply.
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Why a Battery Room Fire in Delhi Disrupted Google Cloud Across Three Indian Cities
A 200 sq ft battery room fire in Delhi disrupted Google Cloud across three cities on June 9. Compute stayed operational. The failure was in a third-party network POP, not a region. It reveals how hyperscalers build network presence in growth markets before owning the infrastructure.
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Up to Half of US Data Centers Planned for 2026 Will Not Be Built on Time. Chinese Electrical Equipment Is the Constraint No One Planned For.
The AI deployment cycle runs 12 to 18 months. The transformer procurement cycle now runs 2.5 to 5 years. A campus announced in 2025 cannot be operational in 2026 or 2027 unless its transformers were on order before the announcement. Wood Mackenzie projects a 30 percent supply deficit for power transformers this year, with demand in 2026 running 21 percent above 2024 levels.
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US Senate Takes Aim at Data Center Energy Consumption, But Europe Already Did This
Last week alone, three separate Senate actions targeted data center electricity use - a reporting demand to the EIA, a construction moratorium bill, and an off-grid sourcing requirement for large facilities. The EU made reporting mandatory in 2023 and is now consulting on efficiency ratings and minimum performance standards, while the US is still debating whether to collect the data.
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Asia-Pacific Hosting Market by the Numbers: Country-Level Growth Data for 2026
China leads in absolute size, but Vietnam's 24.5% CAGR and Indonesia's infrastructure surge are rewriting the growth playbook. A data-driven breakdown of where the region's hosting revenue is - and where it is heading.
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11 US States Want to Ban Data Centers. Here’s What Every Bill Says.
At least 11 U.S. states have filed bills to temporarily ban data center construction, while others are rolling back billions in tax incentives. A state-by-state breakdown of every moratorium bill and incentive rollback in 2026.
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InMotion hosting’s new data center
InMotion Hosting, has announced a major development with the launch of its new East Coast Data Center. Located at NTT Global Data Centers in Ashburn, VA, this next-generation facility underscores the company’s commitment to delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure, aimed at enhancing the speed, reliability, and support of their services.
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Strategic decision: Ukrainian hosting company moves servers to Poland amid growing threats
In the face of the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, hosting company Hostpark has decided to move its server infrastructure to Poland. This move is aimed at protecting customer data and ensuring
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OVHcloud unveils $145M data center in Ontario
OVHcloud launch of a new data center in Cambridge, Ontario. This marks the company's 42nd global data center and solidifies its commitment to the Canadian market with a substantial investment of CAD 145 million.
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OVH opens its first two local zones
OVHcloud is just launching its first two Local Zones in Europe. However, plans go further and by 2026 they want to have as many as 150 Local Zones of their own. We check it out and compare it to the competitor.
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