Which domain name registrars lost (and won) transfers as stated by most recent official data
Latest published data shows August performance of Moniker and other domain name registrars.
ICANN just published Verisign’s official .com numbers from August, which gives us a chance to check in on how certain registrars are doing from a client standpoint.
I’ve been checking these notes over the past few months to see how many domains Moniker is losing following changing its account interface. What I thought would be massive hemorrhaging has proven to be just a slow bleed, at least as far as .com is concerned.
Still, as the chart below shows, Moniker is losing a lot more domains than are being transferred in:
.Com August Successful Transfers
The chart shows the ten registrars with the most successful transfers-out. The left (blue) column shows the number successfully transferred in and the right (red) shows the number out. The higher the left column in relation to the right column, the better for the registrar. If the blue column is taller than the red, more .com domains were moved to the registrar in August than were transferred out.
I’d caution that one month doesn’t make a trend, and these numbers can vary wildly if one client makes a move in a particular month.
Moniker lost 18,254 .com domains to transfers in August. On a trend basis, this is high for the firm, but not outrageous. In June, the month of the transition, it lost 17,506 .coms. In July, it lost 18,057. Prior to the transition, it lost anywhere from 6,000 to 14,000 domains per month this year.
Perhaps more telling in Moniker’s case is the number of expired domains not renewed compared to fresh .com registrations. 25,700 .com domains were deleted from Moniker in August and only 10,587 fresh domains were registered.
Moniker was sitting just above 1 million .com registrations in August. If the trend continues, it dipped below that threshold in September.
Other registrars also lost a lot in August. Network Solutions lost 21,302 to transfers and only won 3,951. (Register.com didn’t make the list, but has a similar ratio.) I suspect NetSol loses a lot every month that were registered on NameJet and are coming up for renewal.
