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Thirty Deals in Six Months: The H1 2026 Hosting Consolidation Map, and the Two Clocks Driving What Sells Next
H1 2026 produced a US$1B Polish hosting-commerce merger, a $450M registrar champion, serial buyers closing two deals apiece within a fortnight, and a $40B data-centre record, while Google's AdSense shutdown forced Sedo and Team Internet to market. The map, the multiples, and the debt walls pushed to 2028-2029.
GoDaddy Q2 2026: More Revenue From the Same Customers
Industry reports #airo#arpu
GoDaddy's Q2 2026: revenue up 6.6%, EPS up 30%, customers up by just 22,000. ARPU, upsell and an $851.8 million buyback are doing the work, and the segment split shows domains and hosting growing slowest of all.
The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 3: The Playbook
Expert's Voice #control-panel#pricing
In the final part of the series, BrandForge CEO Michiel Grotenhuis turns to the practical question: what do you actually do about rising hosting costs? He borrows from streaming, SaaS, and retail, shares what the community is doing, and argues for reducing dependence on any single vendor.
The Renewal Multiplier Index: What Hosting Costs After the Intro Price
Pricing updates #bluehost#hostinger
First edition of our quarterly index, measured July 29: SiteGround renews at up to 5.3x, the price-lock club at 1.0x, and GoDaddy, HostGator, and Namecheap mid-band at 1.7–3.7x. At every provider with a full plan range, the entry plan renews at a higher multiple than the top plan.
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The One-Click Website Was Never Real. AI Does Not Change That – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
Vito Peleg of Atarim argues the agency panic about AI is ahead of the data: DIY activation rates have not moved, and people who left WordPress for Lovable came back in three months. The agencies that shorten delivery and lean into AI will run mega operations; the ones that resist will be replaced.
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Copilot Q&A, Part Two: The AI Finds the Problem. You Decide Whether to Fix It.
Ayaz Ahmed Khan on what Copilot adoption looks like in practice: nearly 400 preview customers, diagnosis time down from 30-60 minutes to minutes, a deliberate human-in-the-loop design, and why AI diagnostics became a paid add-on rather than a bundled feature.
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Elementor on Hosting: Your Stack, Your Choice – Gabriella Laster, Product Marketing Director at Elementor
Gabriella Laster of Elementor on why Elementor Hosting is an option not a lock-in, how the Abilities API turns Angie into a control layer for any WordPress plugin, and why she calls AI-only web building a black box.
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We All Need to Start Building More, and Faster – Artur Grabowski, Co-Founder at Extendify
At WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków, Artur Grabowski from Extendify says many plugins and hosts are still doing the same thing they did two years ago. That is not enough. The industry needs to build more, and faster.
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Some Hosts Are Losing a Lot of Sites – Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt
At Hosts Del Mar, Lasse Hall, CEO of Servebolt, on why PE consolidation does not worry him with 350,000 hosting companies globally, why some hosts are losing a lot of sites to AI-driven competitors, and why the next two to three years change hosting drastically.
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Stop Selling Hosting, Start Selling the Outcome – Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud at Automattic
At Hosts Del Mar, Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud at Automattic, on why hosting companies should stop selling hosting, how the Abilities API will let AI agents live inside WordPress, and why turnkey hosting for registrars keeps domains on the open web.
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Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
Vito Peleg of Atarim on why he reads AI as the biggest opportunity hosting has had in fifteen years, how today's vibe coders mirror the server-in-the-bedroom generation that built today's hosting market, and why reactive agencies feel like a tax while proactive ones win.
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Traditional Hosting Is Disappearing – Berend, CEO of Realtime Register
At Hosts Del Mar, Berend, CEO of Realtime Register, explains why the traditional hosting model is being reversed by AI-first website builders, how Realtime Register is expanding from a domains-only wholesale registrar to a broader vendor stack for HSPs and MSPs, and why commercial and business skills will matter more than the build in the next wave of hosting.
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The Old Way to Sell Security in Hosting Just Broke – Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack
At Hosts Del Mar, Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack, explains why the twenty-year-old hosting security model of selling cleanups after the breach no longer works, why hackers got frontier AI first, and why proactive vulnerability protection has changed the math for hosts.
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Vibe Coding Rebuilt Our Entire Stack – Munir, Founder of aeServer.com
Munir, Founder of aeServer.com, on using vibe coding to automate domain registrations and rebuild their customer-facing stack, the new wave of online businesses in the Middle East, and whether Domain Days Dubai is happening this October.
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More Malware in Q1 Than All of Last Year – Patrick, CRO of Monarx
At Hosts Del Mar, Patrick, CRO of Monarx, explains why malware volume is growing 10x year over year, why traditional signature-based detection is losing ground, and how competing hosts are sharing threat intelligence with each other despite being direct competitors.
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GatorClaw Q&A: Security Architecture, Acknowledged Gaps, and What’s Next
GatorClaw runs AI agents on a persistent VPS for SMBs. Bluehost's Sean Dundon answered ten written questions about governance, prompt injection, credential handling, and how the product compares to Hostinger, DigitalOcean, and OneClaw. Two gaps were acknowledged directly.
Expert's Voice
From Head of Network at STRATO to Leading IPv6 Consultant for Enterprises
BalticNOG – short for Baltic Network Operators Group – is the first event of its kind connecting network professionals across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, but also opening doors to neighbors like Poland
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Why Secure Hosting Alliance Matters for the Industry with David Snead & Brett Dunst (DreamHost)
The Secure Hosting Alliance is gaining momentum. More and more companies are joining including big names like Hostinger and DreamHost. So we decided to take a closer look at what this initiative
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Behind the booths: A conversation with Lucas Radke of WordCamp Europe 2025
For many, WordCamp Europe is a place to learn, network, and celebrate all things WordPress. But behind the keynote talks, the bustling sponsor hall, and the smooth-running schedule lies a massive, invisible engine powered almost entirely by volunteers. Among them is Lucas Radke, a key figure in organizing the sponsor experience for this year.
Expert's Voice
How GoDaddy is adapting to the changing landscape of WordPress – exclusive interview with Adam Warner
The WordPress ecosystem is undergoing a transformation, and few are better positioned to witness and shape this change than Adam Warner, Field Marketing Director at GoDaddy. We caught up with Adam in Ibiza during a relaxed yet insightful event, where he shared how GoDaddy is navigating the evolving web landscape - especially with the advent of AI technologies.
Expert's Voice
Challenges and opportunities shaping Namespace – Exlusive conversation with Macsen Galvin
At this year’s industry gathering in sunny Ibiza, Konrad Keck sat down with Macsen Galvin from Namespace for a candid conversation about the challenges and opportunities facing the domain and hosting industry.
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What is the Secure Hosting Alliance? Explained by David Snead
The Secure Hosting Alliance (SHA) is an initiative that brings together hosting companies and industry experts to increase responsibility among hosting service providers. David Snead, Director of the Secure Hosting Alliance, spoke with Konrad Keck to explain how SHA operates and why it's important.