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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.
Industry reports #domains#godaddy
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.
Stock reports #ai#cloud
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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HostPapa Acquires Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas Dedicated Server Provider Operating Since 2003.
HostPapa acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas dedicated server provider operating since 2003, adding its customer base to the ColoCrossing brand as part of an acquisition run that has included more than 17 deals since 2020.
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PlanetHoster strengthens its presence in Europe with the acquisition of Digital Forest
PlanetHoster has acquired Digital Forest, a French hosting provider founded in 2020 and focused on eco-responsible infrastructure. The transaction was announced on February 11, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part
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UK2 Group has joined Your.Online
TL;DR - this adds another established UK hosting platform to the group. No product changes were announced. The deal fits Your.Online’s ongoing UK consolidation pattern. What actually happened On 2 February 2026,
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Your.Online portfolio expands again with the addition of Dtch. Digitals
TL;DR - Your.Online portfolio now includes also Dtch. Digitals, an award-winning, AI-first digital agency from the Netherlands. The announcement emphasizes continued autonomy, though the exact deal structure was not publicly disclosed.Dtch. Digitals
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Acquired to be shut down: How WP Engine absorbed Big Bite for its know-how
TL;DR - WP Engine’s acquisition of Big Bite, a newsroom-focused WordPress agency, matters not because it “changes the market.” It is part of a long-term trend observed for over a decade: hosting
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Your.online strengthens its DACH footprint with acquisition of high-performance host ecomDATA
The European hosting market continues to consolidate, and your.online has just taken another decisive step. The group announced the acquisition of ecomDATA GmbH, a high-performance hosting provider operating out of Germany and
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
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Group.one expands its reach in Finland with Wepardi acquisition
Group.one, a rapidly expanding European web services company, has taken another significant step in the Finnish market by acquiring Wepardi’s web hosting and domain business. This move strengthens Group.one's foothold in Finland,
Guest post: Who are Private Equity hosting rollups – and what are their playbooks?
The readers of this blog will be familiar with businesses like team.blue, group.one, Miss Group, IONOS, WebPros and others. They all have one thing in common: Private Equity (PE) ownership. When it