Tag: godaddy

We mapped the hosting industry's owners and debt against our renewal-price index: the operators machines cannot price are the ones with liens on the renewal premium.

Hosting's roll-ups are chasing science-based climate targets, but every acquisition imports emissions. team.blue's report documents the tension.

GoDaddy is appealing a Delhi High Court ruling forcing registrars to unmask domain owners and drop default WHOIS privacy, warning it may exit India.

Wix spent $514M to lose subscribers; GoDaddy's customer base fell for a second year while ARPU jumped. Filings show hosting CAC quietly inflating.

A quarter into Visa's April 2026 VAMP change, the "excessive disputes" threshold now sits at 150bps, a live margin cost for hosting's renewal model.

A minor GoDaddy Airo site-creation incident shows AI builders are now part of onboarding and provisioning, not just marketing.

Hostinger gave its AI agent Kodee terminal access to customer VPS. Retention rose from 66% to 70%, and only 7% of conversations need a human.

Cloudflare takes 18.3% of new European ccTLD registrations with a 5.5% installed base. United Internet controls 17% but 9 of 12 brands are not growing.

GoDaddy joined Patchstack's full-integration partner tier in April 2026. Most major managed WordPress hosting brands already use the Estonian vendor.

GoDaddy is now at the center of two AI agent identity initiatives: a Cloudflare product partnership and a 30-company HOL standards consortium. DNS is becoming the address book for AI agents, and the registrar is positioned to be the gatekeeper.