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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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Brussels Will Grade Data Centres From A to G on Power and Water.
The European Commission adopted a delegated regulation on September 21 that turns the figures data centers of 500 kW and up already report into a public A to G label for power and water use. First labels are due by August 15, 2027, and the average PUE reported so far is a D on that scale.
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The EU Just Aimed Its Gatekeeper Rules at AWS and Azure for the First Time, and It Used AI to Do It
For the first time, the European Commission aimed its Digital Markets Act at cloud, preliminarily designating AWS and Azure as gatekeepers on qualitative grounds and naming AI dependence as the lock-in. Remedies on portability and egress would hand European hosts a switching-cost edge.
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The EU Just Defined What Sovereign Cloud Means. One of the Four Winners Is a Google Joint Venture.
The EU awarded EUR 180 million in sovereign cloud contracts to four European provider consortia and introduced the SEAL framework, which for the first time defines cloud sovereignty through measurable levels rather than political principles.
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European Commission Confirms AWS Account Breach: A Customer-Side Failure With EU Cloud Sovereignty Implications
The European Commission confirmed attackers accessed its AWS-hosted Europa.eu infrastructure and took data. AWS says its platform was not the issue, the customer account configuration was.
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NIS2 Is Reshaping Hosting Whether You Are Ready or Not.
The NIS2 Directive is no longer a future compliance problem for hosting providers - it is reshaping products, processes, and pricing right now.