Below key number in latest .com rankings — GoDaddy falls

GoDaddy had fewer than 600,000 fresh .com registrations in December.

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ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers December 2024.

Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:

Some registrars had many more registrations in December than in prior months. This is likely due to bulk registrations or promotions to hit Verisign’s marketing rebate targets.
GoDaddy registered fewer than 600,000 .com domains in December. It’s likely been a long time since that’s happened; I checked the last two years of data, and the registrar cleared 600,000 registrations every month.
I wonder if DropCatch.com will start deleting registrars if it doesn’t increase registration volume. Here’s why.

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of fresh registrations in December 2024, which are the latest available numbers. Note that the rankings include multiple registrar accreditations within families of registrars. You can see the list of registrars at the end of this post.

1. GoDaddy.com (NYSE: GDDY) 583,099 (630,865 in December 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 352,921 (298,713)
3. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 164,310 (146,272)
4. Newfold Digital 159,516 (138,547)
5. Squarespace 148,052 (136,595)
6. Gname 132,084 (142,937)
7. IONOS 86,951 (105,572)
8. Dynadot 81,088 (65,747)
9. Team Internet 71,382 (32,978)
10. MetaRegistrar 70,708 (17,605)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of December.

1. GoDaddy 53,374,853 (55,737,134 in December 2023)
2. Newfold Digital 11,174,786 (12,219,774)
3. Tucows 10,711,013 (10,983,831)
4. Namecheap 10,674,785 (9,502,597)
5. Squarespace 8,137,413 (8,136,301)
6. IONOS 5,682,740 (5,770,638)
7. TurnCommerce 5,100,460 (5,957,292)
8. Gname 4,277,538 (4,514,735)
9. Alibaba 3,850,685 (4,184,892)
10. Team Internet Group 3,044,256 (3,710,743)

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

GoDaddy includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains, MeshDigital, the 5 “Go Country” registrars, and 123 Reg
Namecheap includes Namecheap and Spaceship
Tucows includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
Newfold Digital Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, MarkMonitor, SnapNames registrars, and Crazy Domains/Dreamscape. There are other Newfold registrars, but these are the biggest.
Squarespace includes Squarespace and Google
TurnCommerce Includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
IONOS includes Includes 1&1, InterNetX, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys, and world4you
Team Internet Group includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra

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