{"id":10130,"date":"2026-07-03T23:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?p=10130"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:09:38","slug":"automattic-quietly-acquires-webhosting-com-from-att-for-wordpress-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/automattic-quietly-acquires-webhosting-com-from-att-for-wordpress-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Automattic quietly acquires WebHosting.com from AT&#038;T for WordPress push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Automattic<\/a>, the company behind WordPress, has landed one of the most self-explanatory domain names on the internet. <a href=\"https:\/\/webhosting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WebHosting.com<\/a> spent years sitting dormant under AT&amp;T&#8217;s ownership, quietly pushing traffic to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.att.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ATT.com<\/a> subdomain. Now it belongs to the WordPress parent company, with a bare &#8220;coming soon&#8221; page as the only clue about what comes next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">DomainTools records show the transfer went through within the past week, with WebHosting.com moving from CSC to MarkMonitor and listing Automattic as the new registrant. AT&amp;T never did much with the domain over the years, which makes the acquisition read less like a competitive strike and more like Automattic picking up an opportunity that had been sitting in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The more interesting question is what Automattic plans to do with it. The company already owns a broad ecosystem of WordPress-adjacent brands, including Jetpack, <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-reflects-on-tumblr-as-his-biggest-failure\/\">Tumblr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/woocommerces-new-ai-features-just-became-every-hosts-security-problem\/\">WooCommerce<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/pressable-hands-ai-agents-direct-control-over-wordpress-hosting\/\">Pressable<\/a>, its managed WordPress hosting lab. What it hasn&#8217;t had is a straightforward consumer-facing hosting brand with a name that explains itself immediately. WebHosting.com does exactly that, and for a company whose entire ecosystem revolves around helping people build and run websites, it fits naturally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The most likely direction is a hosting platform aimed specifically at WordPress users looking for a simple, branded place to migrate and manage their sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/automattic-just-turned-wordpresss-23-year-old-admin-panel-into-desktop-os-in-three-days\/\">Automattic<\/a> has spent years building out the infrastructure side of that equation through Pressable and its other properties. A consumer-friendly brand sitting on top of that infrastructure could pull in a much wider audience than any of its current hosting-related brands reach today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The acquisition price hasn&#8217;t surfaced yet, and it was likely a private deal. AT&amp;T may disclose the sale in a future regulatory filing, which would finally put a number to one of the more interesting domain transactions of the year. For now, the &#8220;coming soon&#8221; page on WebHosting.com is doing its job: sparking exactly this kind of speculation about what Automattic is building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has landed one of the most self-explanatory domain names on the internet. WebHosting.com spent years sitting dormant under AT&amp;T&#8217;s ownership, quietly pushing traffic to an ATT.com subdomain. Now it belongs to the WordPress parent company, with a bare &#8220;coming soon&#8221; page as the only clue about what comes next. 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