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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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Cloudflare and GoDaddy Make AI Crawlers Pay Their Way
Cloudflare is sending over one billion 402 responses daily to AI crawlers. A partnership with GoDaddy brings the same allow-block-charge controls to GoDaddy's 20 million customers without a separate Cloudflare account.
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The New Control Layer of Hosting
The shift is not about adding AI features to a hosting platform but reorganizing the platform around a context layer that connects billing, support, infrastructure metrics, and customer behavior. Providers that translate that context into specific actions, plan recommendations, and early churn signals will retain customers that fragmented platforms lose before anyone identifies the risk.
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Oracle Is Cutting Up to 30,000 Employees While Carrying $131 Billion in Debt and Running a $50 Billion Capital Plan
The cuts hit approximately 12,000 employees in India alone and came as Oracle carries $131.7 billion in total debt, a bondholder lawsuit alleging $38 billion in concealed obligations, and a $50 billion capital expenditure commitment for 2026. For managed hosting operators, Oracle is now a vendor that just reduced its support and engineering workforce by 18 percent while locked into multi-year contracts it has fewer people to service.
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Your Customers Aren’t Only Googling Anymore. Is Your Product Stack Ready?
48% of Google searches now show an AI-generated answer and 93% of Google AI Mode sessions end without a click to any website, meaning businesses need to show up in traditional search, AI-generated answers, and LLM-crawled directories simultaneously. The hosting channel sits at the moment of SMB launch, which is the only point where comprehensive brand presence can be built in from day one rather than retrofitted later.
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The WTO’s 28-Year Ban on Digital Customs Duties Has Lapsed
No duty applies automatically, but the multilateral legal constraint that prevented WTO members from taxing SaaS subscriptions, cloud services, and cross-border data transfers no longer exists.
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Virginia Democrats Cannot Agree on a $1.6 Billion Data Center Tax Exemption. A Special Session on April 23 Will Decide It.
The Senate wants to end the exemption by January 1, 2027; the House wants to keep it through 2035 with clean energy conditions; and neither side moved before the legislature left Richmond without a budget for the first time in recent memory. Elimination would cost a major hyperscaler $265 million to $700 million in new annual tax obligations in the market that holds approximately 4 gigawatts of operational data center capacity, the largest concentration in the world.
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WordPress 7.0 Is Delayed. Here Is What Hosting Companies Need to Do Before the Release Date Is Confirmed.
WordPress 7.0 missed its April 9 release date and a new schedule will be announced by April 22. Hosting companies have a narrow window to prepare before the release date is confirmed.
The Hidden Layer of Hosting: The Operational Work Nobody Talks About
This post covers what a lean team actually does to keep diverse workloads running reliably: from automated offsite backups with Acronis and Docker Swarm scaling for QA environments to AI-driven anomaly detection and incident response. The argument is that operational excellence does not require a large engineering department, but it does require building systems that scale without adding headcount.
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ICANN Is Opening the Door to New Domain Extensions for the First Time in 14 Years. Here Is What Hosting Providers Need to Know.
The application window for new generic top-level domains opens April 30, 2026 — the first opportunity since 2012. With a $227,000 application fee, new rules banning closed generics and private contention deals, and .com prices rising again, the domain landscape is about to shift. Hosting businesses should be paying attention.
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Is PrestaShop’s February 2026 security alert linked to over 21 million records allegedly leaked from the Addons Marketplace?
A community-led forensic investigation links the attacks to a reported breach of 21 million records from PrestaShop's own Addons Marketplace. PrestaShop has not confirmed or denied the connection, only issued a security
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GoDaddy declares 21 million customers “business users” overnight – strips consumer protections, overhauls arbitration, and locks down dispute rights
On February 2, 2026, GoDaddy published a revised Universal Terms of Service Agreement (UTOS) that fundamentally changed the legal relationship between the company and its more than 21 million customers. The update
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Hostinger reports 51% revenue growth in 2025, reaches €275.4 million
TL;DR - Hostinger reported €275.4 million in revenue for 2025, up 51% year over year. This is the fourth consecutive year in which the company recorded more than 50% annual revenue growth.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) updated its contract terms, allowing server price changes until shipment
In early February 2026 HPE sent letters to partners, changing contract terms for server and GreenLake orders.HPE cited rising memory prices and supply constraints as reasons for the update. What changed For
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WP Engine claims Automattic planned royalty fees for at least 10 other hosting companies
TL;DR: the 8% royalty proposal from 2024 is old news - but WP Engine now claims that Automattic planned similar demands for at least 10 other hosting competitors. The latest update also
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Wix trades 68.7% below 2025 levels despite $2B buyback plan
Wix closed at $70.95 on February 12, 2026. In January 2025, the stock was trading around $240–$247 per share and the 52-week high stands at $239,73. From that peak to $70.95, the
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Is Webuzo any alternative to cPanel? See what hosting pros think about it in February 2026
A recent discussion on WebHostingTalk - “I need feedback on Webuzo” - triggered an interesting exchange among hosting operators testing Webuzo as a potential alternative to cPanel. Reading through the thread and
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What hosting providers are saying about cPanel in early 2026
A recent thread on WebHostingTalk - “A personal and honest perspective on cPanel - beyond pricing complaints” - triggered a long discussion among hosting operators about cPanel’s direction in 2026. Reading through
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Why Hosting Companies Are Expanding into SaaS, E-commerce, and Ecosystems
For years, the value proposition was simple: rent space on the internet, keep it online, keep it fast, keep it safe. And that still matters - immensely. But it’s no longer where most of the value is captured. In 2026, the most ambitious hosting companies are no longer competing primarily on CPUs, storage, or even performance benchmarks. They’re competing on something much messier and far more powerful: the customer’s workflow.
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Have you paid for your open source last year? team.blue did
TL;DR - PHP runs most of the web, and WordPress alone powers over 40% of it. The PHP Foundation’s annual budget is under $1 million and team.blue just became their Gold Sponsor,
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Lost case – Monaco.com will not belong to Monako
TL;DR - The Government of Monaco lost an attempt to seize Monaco.com from a private owner using UDRP. This was proof that governments do not automatically control matching names in .com, even