.Com Winners & Losers

The latest data regarding domain name registrars and .com domain names.

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ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) regarding the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar note covers February 2019.

Starting this month, I’m counting 123 Reg in GoDaddy’s numbers. This pushes its .com total to over 50 million.

Here’s how registrars did in terms of fresh .com registrations:

1. GoDaddy.com* 884,685 (NYSE: GDDY)
2. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 193,620 (214,018 in January)
3. NameCheap Inc. 146380 (160,061)
4. Endurance+ (NASDAQ: EIGI) 126422 (139,405)
5. Xin Net Technology Corporation 123,707 (217,462)
6. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 112,636 (116,104)
7. Web.com++ 83,164 (108,996)
8. Alibaba (HiChina) 76,420 (97,945)
9. United Internet^ (FRA: UTDI) 70,794 (77,587 )
10. NameSilo (CSE:URL) 69,317 (72,182)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of February 2019.

1. GoDaddy* 50,529,991
2. Tucows** 12,554,559 (12,564,886 in January)
3. Endurance+ 7,076,003 (7,091,446)
4. Web.com++ (6,727,908)
5. Alibaba 6,193,225 (6,208,947)
6. United Internet^ 5,629,371 (5,631,764 )
7. Namecheap 4,627,488 (4,592,302)
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 3,272,339 (3,181,547 )
9. Google 2,266,405 (2,187,443)
10. GMO 1,965,061 (1,959,506 )

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

* Includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows and Enom
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
^ Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys and world4you

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