Automattic Quietly Intensifies WP Engine Tracker Site via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Automattic softly updated the WP Engine Tracker website with an enactment log showing a continuously updated database of domains that person switched distant from managed WordPress host, WP Engine. This update is portion of Mullenweg’s self-described “nuclear war” against WP Engine, with the Tracker tract actively promoting competitors by offering links to their hosting promotions.

WP Engine Tracker

Automattic created a website for the intent of tracking however galore sites person abandoned WP Engine six September 21st, 2024, the day that Matt Mullenweg started went “nuclear” connected WP Engine aft they rebuffed his petition for $32 cardinal dollars. The website promotes deals with different web hosts for moving distant from WP Engine, and a CSV spreadsheet with the domain names of the sites that person near WP Engine.

At immoderate constituent aft launching the website was updated with a database of the apical web hosts that WP Engine customers person migrated to and a perpetually updated database of sites that person precocious moved.

WP Engine Tracker “Activity Log Today”

Automattic escalated what the WP Engine Tracker website does by adding an further diagnostic that shows a continually updated moving database of domains that person migrated distant from WP Engine and the destination host.

Screenshot Of Activity Log Today Feature

WP Engine Lawsuit

The WP Engine Tracker website, created by Automattic and Matt Mullenweg to publically show and connection links to promotions to different web hosts, was cited successful a preliminary injunction filed by WP Engine arsenic grounds of Mullenweg’s purposeful “attack connected WPE” arsenic portion of his “nuclear war” against the managed WordPress host.

The preliminary injunction filed by WP Engine explains:

“Just past week, successful an evident effort to brag astir however palmy they person been successful harming WPE, Defendants created a website—www.wordpressenginetracker.com—that “list[s] . . . each domain hosted by @wpengine, which you tin spot diminution each day. 15,080 sites person near already since September 21st.

September 21 was not selected randomly. It is the time aft Defendants’ self-proclaimed atomic warfare began – an admittance that these lawsuit losses were caused by Defendants’ wrongful actions. In this bonzer onslaught connected WPE and its customers, Defendants included connected their disparaging website a downloadable record of ‘all [WPE] sites acceptable for a caller home’—that is, WPE’s lawsuit list, virtually inviting others to people and poach WPE’s clients portion Defendants’ attacks connected WPE continued..”

But disposable transcripts of the preliminary injunction proceeding of November 26th bash not amusement that it was mentioned. The justice astatine that proceeding asked the plaintiff and defendants to instrumentality to tribunal connected Monday December 2nd with an statement connected a constrictive and circumstantial scope for a preliminary injunction, having said that the archetypal petition was excessively vague and consequently unenforceable.

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