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GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace and more: .Com domain registrar rankings

GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace and more: .Com domain registrar rankings

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ICANN has published the latest registrar-by-registrar data for the .com namespace using official data Verisign provides to ICANN. The data is always three months in arrears; the newest data provided is for January 2026.

Some observations for the latest numbers:

    • GoDaddy, which typically sees its DUMs decrease every month, saw net growth of 68k in January. This is likely due to the firm’s .com promotion, which performed better than expected, and the firm dialed it back in Q1.
    • This may have been Cloudflare’s best month ever for fresh .com registrations.
    • Metaregister had regarding half as many registrations in January than in December.

Top fresh .com registrations

Here are the domain name registrars with the most fresh .com registrations in January. The arrow shows if the number was up or down from the prior month.

# Registrar Total Adds
1 GoDaddy 684,332 ▲
2 Namecheap 471,120 ▲
3 Squarespace 201,418 ▲
4 Hostinger 187,872 ▲
5 Tucows 139,639 ▲
6 Cloudflare 123,648 ▲
7 Gname 110,192 ▼
8 IONOS 96,520 ▲
9 Newfold Digital 94,764 ▼
10 Dynadot 94,714 ▼
11 Wix 76,444 ▲
12 Metaregistrar BV 75,177 ▼
13 TurnCommerce 68,680 ▲
14 NameSilo 60,621 ▲
15 Alibaba 55,907 ▼

Top total .com registrations

The chart below shows the top 15 registrars for total .com domains under management as of January. The arrow indicates whether this is up or down over the past year.

# Registrar Total Domains
1 GoDaddy 52,466,120 ▼
2 Namecheap 12,789,290 ▲
3 Newfold Digital 10,724,978 ▼
4 Tucows 9,656,282 ▼
5 Squarespace 8,971,869 ▲
6 IONOS 6,107,913 ▲
7 Gname 5,093,900 ▲
8 TurnCommerce 4,146,259 ▼
9 Alibaba 4,058,956 ▲
10 Hostinger 3,377,350 ▲
11 Wix 3,170,285 ▲
12 Dynadot 3,151,569 ▲
13 Team Internet 3,104,390 ▲
14 Cloudflare 2,516,650 ▲
15 GMO 2,249,045 ▼

Biggest gainers past year

Domain registrars gain or lose domains under management due to changes in fresh registrations, deletions, and transfers in/out. These are the 15 domain name registrars that have gained the most .com DUMs over the past twelve months ending January 2026:

# Registrar YoY Change
1 Namecheap +1,932,349
2 Hostinger +1,232,470
3 Cloudflare +942,627
4 Gname +858,598
5 Squarespace +723,414
6 Dynadot +603,468
7 Unstoppable Domains Inc. +568,370
8 Name SRS AB +461,850
9 IONOS +442,620
10 Porkbun +325,553
11 Metaregistrar BV +258,682
12 Wix +236,712
13 Alibaba +197,549
14 Registrar.eu +180,048
15 eName Technology Co., Ltd. +148,640

Biggest losers past year

These are the registrars that have lost the most .com DUMs over the past twelve months ending January 2025:

# Registrar YoY Change
1 Newfold Digital -1,358,023
2 Tucows -1,035,404
3 GoDaddy -846,174
4 TurnCommerce -801,425
5 GMO -254,739
6 Realtime Register -228,604
7 SAV -128,124
8 Xiamen 35.com -84,559
9 Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc -72,772
10 DOMAIN NAME NETWORK PTY LTD -66,716
11 DNSPod, Inc. -61,353
12 One.com A/S -55,653
13 Hongkong Kouming International Limited -49,644
14 Chengdu West -44,712
15 Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd. -41,275

Many domain firms have multiple accreditations, and I’ve tried to capture them. See the notes below.

  • GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains, MeshDigital, the 5 “Go Country” registrars, and 123 Reg
  • Namecheap includes Namecheap and Spaceship
  • Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio, and EPAG
  • Newfold Digital includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, SnapNames registrars, and Crazy Domains/Dreamscape.
  • TurnCommerce includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
  • IONOS includes 1&1, InterNetX, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys, and world4you
  • Team Internet Group (London AIM: TIG) includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra

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