Hosting M&A, AI Disruption & Who's Winning in Europe

In WP Legends Episode 168, Nadya Frost shares her journey through two decades of European digital infrastructure, from GoDaddy's EMEA commercial team through the Host Europe Group acquisition, to COO of one.com, before leaving last year to co-found ShareShift, a market intelligence platform that reads DNS and server signals across more than 55 million European domains.

They dig into why hosting companies are so aggressive about acquiring each other in a saturated market, what ShareShift's data actually shows about who's winning the AI arms race in Europe, why domain activation rates are rising fast as AI makes it easier to launch a site, and whether traditional hosting providers risk losing ground to all-in-one platforms like Wix, Squarespace, and Lovable.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & Bluehost Sponsor
1:07 Guest Introduction: Nadya Frost & ShareShift
3:09 Welcome to WP Legends
5:08 GoDaddy vs. One.com: Which Gave the Clearest View of the Industry
8:38 Why Hosting Companies Are So Eager to Acquire Each Other
11:10 Leaving to Start ShareShift: The Origin Story
16:00 The Methodology: Reading DNS Signals Across 55M+ Domains
18:12 New TLDs & How Registries Can Use the Data
22:47 Domain Activation Rates Are Rising Fast, Thanks to AI
25:04 "Boy, Was I Wrong": How Fast AI Changed the Conversation in 12 Months
27:51 Are Hosting Companies at Risk of Being Disrupted by AI?
32:41 Who's Winning the AI Arms Race in Europe
36:47 The Tellme.com Story: Were Voice Domains Ahead of Their Time?
40:08 Fun Questions & Advice for Anyone Starting Today
44:17 ShareShift's Free Quarterly Growth Report & Closing Thoughts

Music Credits
Live Like Legends (Nightcore Remix) by Ruelle

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