Google Domains is Growing: .Com Winners Update

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

ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June.

As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of fresh registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses.

But the bigger story to me is Google, which is growing its fresh registrar at a rapid clip. Google continues to get lots of inbound transfers, and also generated 18,675 fresh .com registrations in June. It ended the month with over 200,000 .com domains.

Keep in mind that these notes are published following a three month delay. So this post is regarding June’s results.

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

1. GoDaddy* 880,326
2. eNom** 217,031
3. HiChina 151,048
4. PublicDomainRegistry 119,963
5. Tucows 111,466

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

1. eNom +15,395
2. Google +6,592
3. HiChina +6,145
4. eName +5,375
5. MarkMonitor +5,075

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

1. MelbourneIT -13,329
2. Domain Discover -11,295
3. Network Solutions -9,252
4. Tucows -8,940
5. Moniker -8,562

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