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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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Namecheap’s Second Hosting Outage This Month Hits 78 Shared Servers
Namecheap's second hosting outage in 13 days hit 78 shared servers on August 26 and was resolved after two hours and twenty minutes of status updates. Unlike the Phoenix cooling failure, this one ended with no cause given.
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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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A Chiller Failure in Phoenix Took Down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP.
Storms knocked out the chillers at RadiusDC's Phoenix site on August 13, and at least four providers went offline behind that failure. The operator's only detailed account appeared on a tenant's status page, and no reason-for-outage report has followed.
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Europe’s Domain Market Is Splitting: Local Giants Hold the Base, Cloudflare and Namecheap Win the Flow
ShareShift's June 2026 analysis maps a structural split in the European ccTLD market: Cloudflare and Namecheap win new registration flow well above their installed base, while United Internet's 17% position masks a portfolio where 9 of 12 brands are not growing net.
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Namecheap Ends Handshake TLD Support as Web3 Domain Projects Retreat
Namecheap pulled Handshake TLD support on June 10, five months after selling its Namebase marketplace. HNS trades at $0.005, down from $0.85 in 2021. Unstoppable Domains says blockchain names were "part of the crypto craze" that never crossed into mainstream usage.
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The Exploit Record: How Government Networks Keep Getting Breached
CVE-2026-41940 was exploited as a zero-day for 68 days before a patch existed. CISA was breached via Ivanti vulnerabilities it had just ordered patched. Volt Typhoon had 5-year US infrastructure access. The case-by-case record of how government networks keep getting owned.
4.67 million new .com domains registered in 2025 according to new Namecheap’s domain insights
TL;DR - in the newest Namecheap Domain Insights & Trends Report included registrations comparison of 2024 vs 2025, with trends and signals for 2026. The dataset is based on Namecheap’s proprietary registration
CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5 billion
CVC Capital Partners has announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Namecheap, one of the largest independent domain registrars and hosting providers. The deal values the company at around $1.5
New companies join our hosting jobs platform
Today, we're pleased to officially welcome three new companies to our list of featured employers: Web Hosting Canada, AEserver Group, and Cloud86. These companies now appear alongside well-known names such as GoDaddy, Hostinger, Kinsta, Namecheap, SiteGround, and World Hosting Group.
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Namecheap wraps up 2024 with $398M in revenue and 18% growth
Namecheap closed out 2024 just shy of a major milestone, with $398 million in revenue. CEO Richard Kirkendall shared the news on X, noting that this figure includes revenue from their Spaceship platform. While they didn’t quite hit the $400M mark, an 18% year-over-year growth rate is impressive in such a crowded and competitive industry.
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.com domain rankings – 2024 update
ICANN recently released the latest .com domain data from Verisign, covering August 2024. This data highlights trends in domain registrations and management across major registrars. Here are the key points from the report.
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The rise of alternative TLDs and key industry trends – Namecheap’s 2024 domain insights
The domain industry continues to change, offering a clear picture of how businesses, individuals, and creators approach their online presence in 2024. Namecheap's latest report highlights some exciting shifts, from the ever-dominant .com to the surprising success of niche and country-code domains.
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The ripple effect of Verisign’s .com price hike: a follow-up
Back in February 2024, we highlighted Verisign’s announcement of an impending price increase for .com domains, a move that was set to come into effect in September. We discussed the 7% rise, taking the annual fee from $9.59 to $10.26, and noted how this was part of a broader strategy in response to shifting market dynamics, including declining domain registrations and changing internet usage patterns.
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ICANN vs. Namecheap: pricing battle
The ICANN vs. Namecheap case is a pivotal moment in the domain registration industry's evolution. The legal arguments and economic analyses presented in this dispute will likely influence future policies and practices regarding domain name pricing.
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Celebrating SpaceShip’s successful year
A year ago, Richard Kirkendall, the CEO of Namecheap, one of the leading internet domain registrars, announced on Twitter the launch of the SpaceShip platform. This was a significant step for the company, marking the beginning of a new era in offering domain and hosting services. Now, a year after this event, it is worth examining what this platform has achieved and what plans it has for the future.