The hosting platforms that survive consolidation will be the ones built around real-time customer context, not compute.

The WTO's 28-year moratorium on customs duties for digital transmissions lapsed on March 30 after MC14 in Yaoundé ended without a deal.

Cloudflare fell 11% on April 9 as Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents threatened the infrastructure layer Cloudflare spent two years building.

Full-year 2025 .com domain data shows GoDaddy registering 7.9 million new domains but finishing with roughly 1 million fewer under management than it started with. Namecheap gained approximately 1.9 million, the largest gain of any registrar.

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.

team.blue completed 11 SaaS acquisitions in 2025. Storyclash, Windsor.ai, and Saleskit are already done in the first quarter of 2026.

The NIS2 Directive is no longer a future compliance problem for hosting providers - it is reshaping products, processes, and pricing right now.

Hosting.com is the first traditional hosting company to launch a product explicitly branded for AI-generated code. The platform, launched March 24, targets both developers using Cursor and Windsurf and non-technical users through a natural language app builder. It runs on Cloudflare Enterprise across 330+ PoPs with Monarx server security and WAF.

Hostinger distributed €11.8 million to employees through its stock option program, backed by €275.4 million in 2025 revenue (+51% YoY) and 4.6 million customers. The payout highlights a growing divide in the hosting industry: companies that share equity with employees versus PE-owned operators that optimize for investor returns.

The .org domain registry will increase its wholesale price starting June 1, 2026, a move that will likely ripple through registrar and hosting pricing in the coming weeks. Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates the .org extension, is raising the wholesale price from $9.93 to $11 per domain per year.