Reglikedomain industry desk

Uniregistry posts a big gain: .Com Winners & Losers

Here’s how registrars fared with .com in April.

ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly note, containing data from April.

Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most fresh .com domain name registrations:

1. GoDaddy* 939,282
2. eNom** 213,549
3. HiChina 173,730
4. PublicDomainRegistry 110,705
5. Tucows 109,715


When it comes to firms that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars for April with retail operations. These numbers are the net gains following taking into consideration transfers-out:

1. Uniregistry +55,617
2. HiChina +8,324
3. Google +7,129
4. eName +6,641
5. NameSilo +5,447

Here are the registrars that lost the most to transfers, offset by the number of inbound transfers:

1. eNom** -36,542
2. Network Solutions -16,656
3. GoDaddy* -13,075
4. MelbournIT -12,515
5. Moniker -11,381

*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes eNom and Name.com, but not dropcatching registrars.

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