As Top Domain Name Registrar — GoDaddy Selected

The world’s biggest domain registrar is also the best, as stated by Reglike’s annual survey.

GoDaddy is the world’s largest registrar with regarding 20M domains registered (counting reseller sites). It was also voted as the best registrar in the 2007 Reglike survey, taking 33% of the vote. Last year GoDaddy was also tops but received only 28% of the vote. Although not without controversy, GoDaddy has grabbed market share by offering domain names for affordable prices and investing heavily in marketing.

This year’s second place registrar was Moniker, which received 16% of the vote, up from 8% of the vote last year. The biggest loser this year was Register.com, which dropped from 18% of the vote to less than 1%. Here are the rankings based on total votes:

1. GoDaddy 33%
2. Moniker 16%
3. eNom 10%
4. Dotster 3%

Here are this year’s percentage votes compared to last year:

When you peel back the onion you find that the overall vote percentages tell only part of the story. When you consider owners of sizable domain portfolios (greater than 500 domains), Moniker ties GoDaddy for top honors with 23% of the vote. eNom jumps to 20% of the vote. Furthermore, if you look at the number of votes compared to total domains registered, Moniker comes out on top.

[The next survey results article will explain which factors registrants believe are most notable when selecting a domain name registrar.]