To shine in .Com Winners and Losers — Uniregistry continues

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

Uniregistry recently disclosed that it crossed the million domain milestone. I’m not sure how Frank Schilling’s own domain names and North Sound fresh TLDs are accounted for, but the number is strong even if all of his domains in the total.

For the second month in a row, Uniregistry tops the transfer gains in Verisign’s monthly note.

Keep in mind that these notes are published following a three month delay. So this post is regarding May’s results. They certainly suggest that Uniregistry is becoming a popular registrar from a transfer-in perspective. Net adds are still lacking, though, with just 1,280 fresh .com registrations in May. This makes sense if the firm is mostly attracting domain name investors.

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

1. GoDaddy* 900,737
2. eNom** 217,152
3. HiChina 157,192
4. PublicDomainRegistry 115,932
5. Tucows 106,574

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

1. Uniregistry +30,851
2. Epik +17,433
3. CSC +8,327
4. HiChina +6,691
5. Google +6,143

Epik and CSC are fresh to this list.

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

1. eNom** -32,201
2. MelbourneIT -13,323
3. Network Solutions -11,538
4. Tucows -8,691
5. Moniker -8,647

GoDaddy is usually on the transfers lost list, but it had a good month when it comes to transfers. Its flagship GoDaddy.com registrar actually gained a little. Combined with reseller platform Wild West Domains, it lost 1,421.

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