A slow month: .Com Winners & Losers
Fresh .com registrations dropped a bit in June compared to a year ago.
ICANN has published the latest .com transactions note from registry Verisign, showing official results from June.
Total fresh .com registrations this June compared to June 2015 were down 57,355, and you can see it in the leaderboard. June is often a soft month, but even comparing to the same month last year, GoDaddy and Rightside were down a bit.
Here are the top 5 registrars in June in terms of fresh .com registrations:
1. GoDaddy* 812,220
2. Rightside** 199,141
3. HiChina 141,094
4. Tucows 110,675
5. PublicDomainRegistry 91,683
Here are the top five registrars for net inbound transfers:
1. Uniregistry +17,834
2. EIMS.cn +15,000
3. Mesh Digital +12,802
4. Google +7,701
5. MAFF (XZ.com) +7,275
On the flip side, these five registrars saw the biggest net outflow of .com domain names due to transfers:
1. Tucows -18,064
2. Web.com*** -9,050
3. Moniker -8,646
4. Fabulous -6,582
5. 1&1 -5,060
*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes eNom and Name.com, but not dropcatching registrars. ***Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
