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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.
Articles tagged #europe
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Security
EU Software Makers Now Have 24 Hours to Report an Exploited Flaw.
Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act took effect on September 11, giving manufacturers 24 hours to file an early warning on an actively exploited flaw. License is not the test, monetization is, and the equivalent duty for open-source stewards does not begin until December 2027.
Events
Atlas Digital Summit Debuts in Reykjavik: Two Days on What AI Does to the Hosting Business
A 1927 Reykjavik theater hosts the first Atlas Digital Summit on September 28-29: two keynotes, six executive roundtable blocks in parallel Hosting and Security tracks, curated by Jason Nickerson of Domain Days Dubai. Invite-only, C-level, with AI as the thread through every session.
Pricing updates
Melbicom Prices Its Premium CDN by Zone: EUR 0.03 per GB in 55 Territories, Up to 0.15 Elsewhere
Melbicom's new CDN pairs a 39-PoP Premium network with a 12-PoP Volume lane reaching EUR 0.002 per GB. The zone map sets Premium's destination rate: 55 territories at the entry 0.03, delivery to the other 196 costs more. Cache-fill is free, the company told us; the published terms state no SLA.
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my.host Expands Into Europe From a Market With No Dominant Provider
The Dutch host has launched an English site and will add European data centers. The Netherlands is the eleventh most fragmented market we track and its leader holds 12.6 percent, so a challenger there has no dominant incumbent to displace.
M&A
Infomaniak Goes Public Without Losing Control
The Swiss host is listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange by reversing into Perrot Duval, a company listed since 1905, to fund sovereign-cloud data centres. The twist: its foundation keeps majority voting rights, so Infomaniak reaches the market while writing permanent independence into its structure.
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August 2 Is Still Real: What the AI Act’s Big Date Means for Hosting After the Omnibus
The Digital Omnibus moved the AI Act's high-risk obligations to December 2027, and much of the industry heard "delay." But August 2, 2026 still activates Commission fines up to 3% of turnover for GPAI providers and transparency duties for new AI systems. Where hosts sit, step by step.
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UpCloud’s Founder Becomes CEO After a 15-Month Outside Hire
UpCloud has named founder Joel Pihlajamaa as chief executive, ending Arno Schäfer's roughly 15-month tenure and putting the Helsinki cloud provider under founder-led leadership. The company frames it as a natural evolution and a signal that its sovereign, engineering-led strategy stays the course.
Security
A Compromised Server Is the Beginning. Here Is What Breach Law Requires Next.
Change Healthcare's $3.1 billion in breach costs is the new normal of what a serious compromise sets in motion: parallel notification clocks across GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and HIPAA; personal liability for CISOs and boards; and a cyber insurance market with conditions that can deny coverage at the worst moment.
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My WordCamp Europe 2025 Key Takeway: What’s Holding WordPress Back? Its First 5 Minutes.
Last week at WordCamp Europe, I had some of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve had in a while. Not just with fellow hosting providers, but also with solution providers who are quietly reshaping what WordPress ecosystem and hosting solutions look like. I left the event with a notebook full of thoughts and I’d like to share the ones that stuck with me most.
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Top 7 sessions you can’t miss at WordCamp Europe 2025
WordCamp Europe 2025 will take place from June 5–7 in Basel, Switzerland. It’s the biggest WordPress event in Europe, gathering users, developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the world. With multiple tracks
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European Commission seeks experts for .EU Domain Advisory Group
The European Commission has announced a call for applications to select new members for the .EU Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG). This initiative aims to bring together experts from various sectors to guide the governance of the .eu top-level domain (TLD), which currently boasts around 3 million domain names.
Industry reports
OVHcloud Q3 2024 financial summary
OVHcloud, one of the leading European cloud companies, has published its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024. The company reported significant revenue growth, continued international expansion, and the introduction of innovative technological solutions. Below is a detailed summary of these results, including year-over-year (Y-Y) comparisons and key achievements.
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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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