Reglikedomain industry desk

.Com’s latest winners and losers

Registrar results with .com are in for July

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

Here’s Reglike’s monthly look at how registrars performed with .com.

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

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

1. GoDaddy* 893,043
2. eNom** 218,457
3. HiChina 152,135
4. PublicDomainRegistry 117,568
5. Tucows 111,958


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

1. eNom +10,140
2. HiChina +6,191
3. Google +6,071
4. Uniregistry +5,399
5. NameSilo +5,118

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

1. MelbourneIT -11,233
2. Network Solutions -8,713
3. Tucows -7,400
4. TierraNet -6,899
5. 1&1 -5,053

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

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