Reglikedomain industry desk

.Com Winners & Losers

Here are the registrars that did best (and worst) with .com in February.

ICANN has published the latest official .com transactions note from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for February 2017.

Here’s a look at how the registrars fared with fresh registrations and transfers in February:

Here are the top 5 registrars in February in terms of fresh .com registrations:

1. GoDaddy* 926,603
2. Tucows** 221,287
3. PublicDomainRegistry 135,635
4. HiChina 120,756
5. Namecheap 115,376

Here are the top five registrars (open to the public) for net inbound transfers:

1. HiChina +14,679
2. Google +7,747
3. NameBright +7,445
4. NameSilo +4,955
5. Epik 4,087

On the flip side, these five registrars saw the biggest net outflow of .com domain names due to transfers:

1. GoDaddy -9,860
2. Tucows -7,031
3. Domain.com -5,631
4. 1&1 -5,450
5. Web.com*** -3,913

*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes Tucows and eNom *** Includes Network Solutions and Register.com, but not drop catching registrars.

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