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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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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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DigitalOcean’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than GoDaddy’s. What Five Public Multiples Say About Hosting Valuations.
GoDaddy is worth less than DigitalOcean on five times the revenue, and OVHcloud's record margin earns the lowest multiple of all. Our arithmetic on five public companies shows what actually moves a hosting valuation, and the logic transfers to private deals.
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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.
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Hosting’s Next Six Months Are Already Scheduled: Five Dates to Prepare For
September 11 puts vendor silence on a 24-hour clock. Autumn opens the licensing season under a new ownership alignment. Q3 closes the Sedo window. November 1 raises .com to $10.97. January 12 kills egress fees. What prepared operators do before each date.
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Verisign Finally Won .web. Unlike .com, No One Caps Its Price.
On July 22, after a decade of litigation, Verisign won .web. It arrives as the company posts a record .com quarter, and unlike .com, whose price is capped by a US government agreement, .web has no such ceiling. What a freely priced premium domain under the .com monopolist means for the market.
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H1 2026: The Six Months That Repriced Hosting
H1 2026 synthesized from forty pieces of verified reporting: renewal spreads past 5x, RAM and storage up 50–300%, domain escalators restarted into record demand, the acquisition funnel measurably broken, $850B of leases off balance sheet, and the machine customer arriving. Growth by invoice.
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ICANN Meets June 8. One Proposal Could Force Registrars to Investigate Every Customer Tied to a Single Abuse Report.
ICANN is debating a rule that would require registrars to investigate every domain from a customer when one is flagged for abuse. Seville (June 8-11) is where that debate begins in earnest. The gTLD window closes August 12.
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Verisign Starts a Four-Year .com Price Cycle. The First 7% Hits in November.
Verisign's 7% .com wholesale price increase from November 2026 is the opening move of a four-year pricing cycle. If exercised in full, wholesale .com pricing would reach $13.45 by 2029, with cost pressure flowing through every registrar and hosting provider in the chain.
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Akamai Up 26%, Cloudflare Down 16%. Q1 Earnings Show Where AI Value Lives.
On May 7, Akamai signed a $1.8 billion, seven-year AI compute contract and surged 26% in after-hours trading. Cloudflare beat Q1 estimates with $639.8M in revenue, raised full-year guidance, and fell roughly 16% after announcing 1,100 layoffs and Q2 guidance that missed analyst consensus. Alongside Q1 results from GoDaddy, DigitalOcean, Verisign, and Tucows, the divergence reveals a clear 2026 pattern: contracted AI compute is valued over platform positioning.
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Verisign May Regain the Option to Raise .com Prices in 2026
Verisign may again be able to raise wholesale prices for .com domains in late 2026, despite earlier assumptions that such an increase would not be permitted during that year. A closer reading of the company’s contractual framework suggests that the timing of past price increases has blurred how the pricing rules actually work.
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VeriSign reports strong Q3 2024 results
VeriSign, a leading company in domain name registry services, recently released its financial results for the third quarter of 2024. These results show a mixture of positive growth and challenges, making them
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Verisign agrees to implement .com domain takedown rules
Verisign has agreed to incorporate new rules regarding the takedown of abusive .com domains as part of its upcoming registry contract with ICANN. The proposed contract, now open for public comment, may
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Verisign announces revenue forecast cut
Verisign, a well-known manager of internet domains such as .com and .net, has announced a reduction in its financial forecasts for 2024. This decision comes in response to weaker than expected results in the first quarter of the year.
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.com domain prices rise this september
Verisign recently published its 2023 earnings report, showing not only its results for the year, but also its roadmap for 2024. What's of interest to everyone is the announced price increases for .com domains, which will see costs increase to $10.26.