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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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ICANN Confirms 1,616 gTLD Applications Proceed. Reveal Day Expected by October 14.
ICANN's September 22 count puts the 2026 gTLD round at 1,616 paid applications out of 1,663, smaller than 2012's 1,930. Reveal Day is due by October 14, the schedule promised for mid-September is now promised for the week of September 28, and contention will be settled without private auctions.
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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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In Wix’s Report, .store Doubled and .ai Cracked the Top 10. Zone Files Rank Them 24th and 39th
Wix says .store doubled and .ai cracked its top ten. Our zone data ranks them 24th and 39th while .com holds 45.6%, and registry estimates have .shop renewing at 14.2% against .com's 74.9%. Fast growth, faster churn, and the same incumbent.
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Five Registrars, Half the Blocklisted Domains, and a Dispute Over the Count
Interisle counts 8.5 million of 2025's 85 million new gTLD domains on blocklists, with five registrars accounting for half of them and rates ranging from 3% to 88%. ICANN's scientists dispute the scale and the method, while two policy processes target the bulk registration the report documents.
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GoDaddy Is Sued Over the .com Promotion That Worked Too Well
A securities complaint alleges GoDaddy told investors it had turned off front-of-funnel discounting while running a $4.99 one-year .com offer. Its own filings show domains under management rising in that quarter and bookings growth falling from 9.1% to 5%.
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Namecheap Wants 40 Top-Level Domains, and 15 Overlap With Rival Portfolios
The second-largest registrar is moving up the chain with 40 top-level domain applications. Fifteen of them overlap with portfolios published by rival applicants, though two of those rivals filed more than three hundred strings each, which is most of the explanation.
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Estonia’s Zone Joins Your.Online, a Roll-Up Now More Than 60 Deals Deep
Your.Online has added Estonia's Zone to a portfolio of 35 brands built through more than 60 acquisitions. The pattern in that list matters: the group already owns Gandi, Blacknight, Heart Internet and o2switch, and is now buying the operators each country names first.
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A DNS Record Now Flags Domains for Sale. Adoption Is Up to Registrars.
RFC 10023 defines a "_for-sale" DNS record so a domain owner can advertise a name directly, price and contact included. SIDN built it to loosen the secondary market's grip, but it only works if registrars put the button in front of customers.
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$227,000 to Apply for a New Domain Ending: The First ICANN Round Since 2012 Closes August 12
ICANN's first new gTLD window since 2012 closes August 12: $227,000 per application, country names banned outright, cities needing government letters. Bali wants .bali, and ICANN 87 lands on the island in October, where the bid is due to be announced.
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Parked Domains Lost Their Ad Engine. What Replaced It Is Drawing Scrutiny.
For a decade, parked domains earned money showing Google ads. On February 10, 2026, Google ended AdSense for Domains and the parking economy collapsed: Bodis closed, Sedo's revenue fell 66%, Team Internet's search revenue fell 63%. The traffic moved to zero-click redirects ICANN is now examining.
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ICANN Meets June 8. One Proposal Could Force Registrars to Investigate Every Customer Tied to a Single Abuse Report.
ICANN is debating a rule that would require registrars to investigate every domain from a customer when one is flagged for abuse. Seville (June 8-11) is where that debate begins in earnest. The gTLD window closes August 12.
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Porkbun Reaches 3 Million Domains Under Management
Porkbun has hit a major milestone: more than 3 million domains are now under its management. For a company that entered the scene in 2015, the achievement highlights just how far it has come in less than a decade.