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Squarespace tops nine million .coms: .Com rankings

Squarespace tops nine million .coms: .Com rankings

These are the fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking domain registrars.

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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 February 2026.

Some observations for the latest numbers:

    • Unstoppable Domains has added a net 639k fresh .coms over the past 12 months. It just disclosed it’s raising prices, counting increasing transfer prices to what’s typical for domain investors. It will be interesting to see what impact this has on its market share.
    • Squarespace topped nine million .com domains under management.

Top fresh .com registrations

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

# Registrar Total Adds
1 GoDaddy 639,479 ▼
2 Namecheap 467,449 ▼
3 Squarespace 213,446 ▲
4 Hostinger 210,277 ▲
5 Tucows 138,694 ▼
6 Cloudflare 134,744 ▲
7 IONOS 97,238 ▲
8 Dynadot 83,933 ▼
9 Newfold Digital 80,490 ▼
10 Wix 75,448 ▼
11 GMO 69,610 ▲
12 Metaregistrar BV 67,666 ▼
13 Porkbun 60,925 ▲
14 Gname 59,887 ▼
15 TurnCommerce 58,830 ▼

Top total .com registrations

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

# Registrar Total Domains
1 GoDaddy 52,544,426 ▼
2 Namecheap 12,956,054 ▲
3 Newfold Digital 10,583,387 ▼
4 Tucows 9,582,608 ▼
5 Squarespace 9,099,905 ▲
6 IONOS 6,120,565 ▲
7 Gname 5,064,061 ▲
8 TurnCommerce 4,145,633 ▼
9 Alibaba 4,015,781 ▲
10 Hostinger 3,541,706 ▲
11 Wix 3,225,521 ▲
12 Dynadot 3,159,487 ▲
13 Team Internet 3,037,038 ▼
14 Cloudflare 2,656,669 ▲
15 GMO 2,252,892 ▼

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 February 2026:

# Registrar YoY Change
1 Namecheap +1,975,551
2 Hostinger +1,242,273
3 Cloudflare +1,022,305
4 Gname +841,211
5 Squarespace +778,456
6 Unstoppable Domains +638,748
7 Dynadot +562,497
8 IONOS +471,728
9 Name SRS AB +409,888
10 Porkbun +343,847
11 Wix +266,175
12 Metaregistrar BV +242,090
13 Registrar.eu +212,704
14 Alibaba +164,101
15 NameMart Pte. Ltd. +146,632

Biggest losers past year

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

# Registrar YoY Change
1 Newfold Digital -1,441,819
2 Tucows -1,092,371
3 GoDaddy -735,695
4 TurnCommerce -639,743
5 GMO -235,520
6 Realtime Register -194,721
7 SAV -145,655
8 Xiamen 35.com -89,108
9 WebNic.cc -83,720
10 Domain Name Network -68,911
11 DNSPod, Inc. -63,626
12 One.com A/S -62,877
13 Jiangsu Bangning Science -61,868
14 Hongkong Kouming -56,215
15 Epik LLC -40,714

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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