Domain impact: WordPress introduces 100-year domain registrations as asteroid approaches
The domain registrar arm of WordPress now offers 100-year domain registrations, ensuring digital presence for a full century. The announcement comes as astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a chance of impacting earth sometime in late 2032—that’s in 7 years from now. By extending registrations well beyond a domain investor’s or end-user registrant’s typical […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#WordPress was “held hostage” by #Apple over iOS app update dispute
WordPress was “held hostage” by Apple, as the iOS app that manages active web sites was blocked until Automattic paid up, apparently. Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, said about the thorny issue on Twitter: Heads up on why @WordPressiOS updates have been absent… we were locked by App Store. To be able to ship updates […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Namecheap EasyWP discounts : Sixteen years of #WordPress!
Domain registrar Namecheap celebrates sixteen years of WordPress, with a big discount of its popular hosting plan, EasyWP. This limited three-day birthday sale runs from May 27th, to May 29th. What is the EasyWP hosting plan? “EasyWP’s “one-click setup process” is a quick and easy solution for those who value time and money spent on […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Finally upgraded to #WordPress 5.x – with a caveat!
After several weeks of beta testing the new WordPress 5.x we have safely upgraded to the latest version of this popular CMS. We warned domain bloggers about rolling with the new version and with good reason: lots of web sites depending on WordPress reported having issues with the new embedded editor, Gutenberg. During the test […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Gutenberg : You might have to turn off your WordPress automatic updates
WordPress powers almost 28% of the top 10 million websites and it’s quite versatile as a content management, publishing system. For security reasons, WordPress automatically updates itself these days, but there are major changes looming ahead. Sometime early next year, WordPress will roll out Gutenberg, an improved editing system that changes its core structure. Currently, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Is WordPress a safe platform for domain blogs?
WordPress has been powering numerous domain industry blogs, including our very own, DomainGang.com, for several years. From the early days, to the current version 4.7.3, WordPress has come a long way; it’s now powering more than 26% of the web. Its founder, Matt Mullenweg, was interviewed by Braden Pollock during NamesCon 2017, and stated that […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Father Domainicus : Have you received the Evangelion about .Blog domains?
Greetings and salutations, my domain brothers and sisters – this is Father Domainicus on a chilly, nippy Sunday here in Florida. As it has been the custom for many years now, as a servant of the Domain Church I am often asked questions by domain investors. Regardless of whether these inquiries involve our domainer faith, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sucuri hack report : WordPress most hacked CMS
Sucuri, the security and vulnerability monitoring and prevention company, has released its Q1/2016 report on Web site hacks. The proliferation of content management systems (CMS) has increased the number of attacks targeting domains and web sites utilizing them. Sucuri often alerts the community of CMS users about trends in security attacks, and their 2016 report […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WordPress penetrates 48% of the CMS market’s domains
WordPress, the content management system (CMS) used by many web sites around the world, broke new records recently. According to statistics released by BuiltWith, WordPress installations gained 7% among all CMS installations, increasing the market share of WordPress to 48%. This translates to an additional 1,149,956 domains running web sites on WordPress, in the first […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WordPress plugin vulnerability : GoDaddy, DreamHost roll out patch to serious security flaw
Web hosting companies that offer WordPress, such as GoDaddy, DreamHost, Pressable and others, rolled out security updates to their clients earlier today. The upgrades were fixing a serious security flaw affecting popular plugin JetPack and the default installation of the TwentyFifteen theme that comes with WordPress. If your domain is not managed by a host […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Four security issues in WordPress sent programmers scrambling for update
WordPress, the most popular content management system on the web, is being used by millions of blogs and web sites. Due to its widespread use, it’s also a primary target for attacks for vulnerabilities by unscrupulous hackers. Luckily, the WordPress system is also programmed by a well-versed community of researchers; when vulnerabilities are discovered, they […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.FBI issues WordPress warning regarding ISIS sympathizers
There’s one more a reason that the FBI sent its representative to NamesCon 2015, aside from participating in the stolen domains debate. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been monitoring the amount and type of web site defacements, performed by ISIS sympathizers. In particular, it seems that a lot of this type of hacking activity […]
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