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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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DropCatch Added 300 Registrars. It Now Holds 45 Percent of All ICANN Accreditations.
TurnCommerce's DropCatch added 300 registrar accreditations in one batch, its first since 2016. IANA's list shows 1,501 of 3,321 accreditations carrying its name, and 1,552 on its infrastructure, against 519 on Newfold's SnapNames.
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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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Verisign Will Delete 22,000 .name Domains That Are Paid For. Two Registrants Are Fighting It.
Verisign has ICANN's permission to delete every third-level .name domain in existence, the john.smith.name form the registry launched with, along with the email forwarding service that let a registrant receive mail at [email protected].
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We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
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.
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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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Aruba Applied for 39 TLD Strings. The Private Auction That Won It .cloud Is Now Banned.
Aruba, the Italian host that runs .cloud, told Domain Name Wire it applied for 39 strings in ICANN's 2026 round, among them vps, demo and pec. It won .cloud in a private auction, the route the new rules ban, which leaves an ICANN auction or a free switch to a fallback.
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Team Internet Still Wants Over $160 Million for Its Domains Business. The Timeline It Set in June Has Passed.
Team Internet's sale of its Domains, Identity and Software division is at an advanced stage with multiple parties interested in all or parts of it, the company said on September 7, holding its floor of over $160 million while the outcome it guided for in early Q3 has yet to arrive.
Expert's Voice
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.
Industry reports
Parked Domains Distort Hosting Rankings. So Do Corporate Registrars.
National hosting rankings mix five different businesses in one column. By our count, 35 of 115 markets have a domain parking service or a corporate brand-protection registrar among the eight largest names, which leaves fewer domains attributable to hosting providers than the table suggests.
Pricing updates
Verisign Lifts .net Wholesale From $10.91 to $12.00, Effective March 1, 2027
A one-line 8-K raises .net wholesale from $10.91 to $12.00 from March 1, 2027, the first increase since February 2024. With 12.5 million registrations renewing at 78.7%, the step is worth up to $13.6 million a year, and resellers have six months to reprice.
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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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Telegram Applies for .gram After a Sanctions Listing Took Down t.me
A single Telegram channel address in a US sanctions filing took the whole of t.me offline for nineteen hours. Telegram's answer is to apply for its own top-level domain, but a registry contract does not move a company out of the jurisdiction that caused the outage.
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ICANN Banned the Private Deals That Ended Most 2012 gTLD Contests
More than 1,600 applications arrived before ICANN's window closed, but the bigger change is the rulebook. Private resolution of contention sets is now prohibited, and unlike its 2012 predecessor the Guidebook says nothing about where the auction money goes.
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Web3 Naming Bids for the DNS Root, and ICANN Names Its Price
ICANN's study group concluded that blockchain naming can integrate with the DNS root, but only if the same string stays under the same owner in both systems. Days before the deadline, ENS reorganized into a foundation to pursue .ens as a closed brand domain, with the earliest launch in 2028.
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Webhosting Today Experts Join Exclusive Delegate Roster at Domain Summit Europe 2026
Domain Summit Europe 2026 opens August 16 in Kempten, Germany, capping attendance at 60 invited delegates. Three of our experts, Frederick Schiwek, Michiel Grotenhuis and Daniel Stanica, join two days of executive sessions on European hosting and domains, August 17-18.
M&A
GoDaddy Averages 24 Million Domains Per Brand. team.blue Averages 163,000.
Consolidation is not one strategy. Some groups buy scale and run three brands, others buy presence and run forty-one, and the gap between them is about 150 to 1. Meanwhile six in ten tracked domains still sit outside every group we track.
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Porkbun Passed 4 Million Domains. The More Interesting Number Is 750,000.
Porkbun announced its fourth million domains under management, reached in nine months by the company's own count. The number underneath it matters more: 750,000 customers, up from 450,000 at the last milestone, meaning the registrar is adding people faster than it is adding domains.
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Running a Domain Costs About a Dollar a Year. Here Is What Eight Registries Charge for It.
We compiled the published accounts of eight domain registries. Three independent data points put the cost of operating a domain-year at about a dollar; wholesale prices run from €1 for .de to $11 for .org after its first increase since 2016. Governance, not technology, sets the price.