Latest .com rankings

Here’s how registrars performed in the latest monthly note.

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ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) regarding the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar note covers October 2019.

There was a bit of shakeup in the top 10 list as has become common. Web.com was helped by nearly 78,000 registrations at Crazy Domains.

Here’s how registrars did in terms of fresh .com registrations:

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 867,828 (855,287 in September)
2. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 189,005 (180,825)
3. Namecheap Inc. 170,249 (163,226)
4. Dynadot 146,771 (n/a)
5. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 146,747 (138,929)
6. Endurance+ (NASDAQ: EIGI) 130,428 (124,810)
7. Xin Net 128,049 (n/a)
8. Alibaba (HiChina) 121,623 (105,294)
9. Web.com++ 112,619 (71,894)
10. NameSilo 76,139

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of October 2019.

1. GoDaddy* 51,365,334 (51,253,800 in September)
2. Tucows** 12,969,022 (13,047,695)
3. Web.com++ 7,101,250 (7,031,650)
4. Endurance+ 6,863,214 (6,873,843)
5. Alibaba 6,032,936 (6,118,945)
6. United Internet^ 5,547,495 (5,549,036)
7. Namecheap 5,125,801 (5,051,943)
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 4,508,653 (4,518,714)
9. Google 2,939,902 (2,845,811)
10. GMO 2,209,814 (2,183,060)

Many domain firms have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below.

* Includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes Network Solutions, Register.com, and Crazy Domains
^ Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys and world4you

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