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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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Industry reports
GoDaddy Q2 2026: More Revenue From the Same Customers
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.
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.
Expert's Voice
The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 3: The Playbook
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.
Pricing updates
The Renewal Multiplier Index: What Hosting Costs After the Intro Price
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.
Pricing updates
Leaseweb’s VPS Increase Falls Hardest on the Cheapest Plans
Leaseweb raises VPS prices on August 1, but not evenly: the cheapest US plan nearly doubles while premium tiers rise far less and some mid-range plans hold. It is less a broad memory tax than a deliberate reset of its cheapest plans, and it lands hardest on the price-sensitive buyers who chose cheap in the first place.
M&A
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.
Industry reports
Parked Domains Lost Their Ad Engine. What Replaced It Is Drawing Scrutiny.
For a decade, parked domains earned money showing Google ads. On February 10, 2026, Google ended AdSense for Domains and the parking economy collapsed: Bodis closed, Sedo's revenue fell 66%, Team Internet's search revenue fell 63%. The traffic moved to zero-click redirects ICANN is now examining.
Industry reports
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.
Security
A Malware Campaign Is Using GitHub Actions to Hunt Unpatched cPanel Servers
Three months after cPanel's emergency patch, attackers have turned GitHub Actions into a distributed fleet that scans the internet for servers still exposed to CVE-2026-41940 and harvests their cloud keys, tokens and database logins. How it works, and what to check.
Industry reports
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.
Expert's Voice
The Hosting Price Squeeze, Part 2: Should You Actually Pass It On?
Part two of the hosting price squeeze series tackles the decision that keeps founders up at night: pass rising costs on, absorb them, or find a middle path. A segment-by-segment guide to raising prices without breaking customer trust.
Industry reports
A Government ID for Every .ru Domain, and a Warning for Every Country Code
From September 1, everyone holding a .ru domain must verify their identity through a Russian government system or lose the name, and foreign owners are the ones most exposed. It is a blunt reminder that a country-code domain carries the politics of the country behind it.
Security
A Once-a-Decade WordPress Core Flaw, and the Gap Between Patched and Safe
A critical flaw in WordPress core, the first of its kind in nearly a decade, triggered a rare forced update to millions of sites. Within 72 hours it was mass exploitation, because forced updates never reach everyone. Why patched and safe are not the same thing.
Security
A 16-Year-Old KVM Escape, and OVHcloud’s Week-Long Patch Across a Million VMs
A 16-year-old flaw in KVM let a customer with admin access escape their virtual server and seize the host on both Intel and AMD. OVHcloud built a fix and rebooted around a million VMs in a week to deploy it, and the campaign shows the quiet choice every host makes between your consent and your safety.
Security
A Critical Nginx Flaw and Who Is Actually Exposed
F5 patched CVE-2026-42533, a heap-overflow flaw in Nginx rated 9.2 that has sat in the code since 2011. It is unauthenticated and remote, but only triggers under a specific regex-map configuration, so not every server is exposed. With a proof-of-concept exploit due in early August, here is who actually needs to patch.
Industry reports
GoDaddy Opens Its Domain API to AI Agents, With Guardrails Built In
GoDaddy's new Developer Platform lets AI agents search, register, and manage domains without a browser. Unlike the first wave's "no human required" pitch, it ties every registration to a recorded consent object and scoped tokens, the domain version of the authorization pattern agentic commerce is converging on.
M&A
Green Olive Tree Acquires ZebraHost for $1.1 Million, Nearly Doubling in Size
Green Olive Tree, a veteran-owned managed host, has acquired ZebraHost LLC for $1.1 million, closing June 22 and nearly doubling its revenue. Struck as ZebraHost's 76-year-old founder retires, it shows the founder-succession M&A quietly consolidating hosting's small end.
Security
Roundcube’s Zero-Click Webmail XSS, and How Fast It Reached cPanel
A zero-click stored XSS in Roundcube webmail, scored CVSS 7.2, lets a crafted plain-text email run script in a victim's session on preview. Roundcube fixed it on July 5, cPanel shipped it in 134.0.45 on July 14, and standalone installs still need patching separately.
Partners
Top 5 Mistakes Hosting Companies Make That Drives Churn and How to Fix Them
Customers rarely churn because they found a better host; they leave because they felt lost, overwhelmed, or misled. Extendify lays out five fixable experience gaps, from confusing plans to invisible security, that decide whether a first-time customer stays or disappears.
M&A
The Balance Sheet Behind Your Renewal Invoice: Who Owns the Hosting Industry, and What It Owes
Your renewal invoice has a balance sheet behind it. We mapped hosting's private-equity owners, their debt, and the 2028 maturity wall against our own Renewal Multiplier Index: the most leveraged operator restructured in December, the tooling layer is reportedly funding sponsor dividends, and the debt-free cohort is quietly taking the customers.