One tripled, one halved: How domain stocks performed in 2025
NameSilo and Tucows lead gainers; Team Internet and GoDaddy saw steep declines.
With 2025 in the books, here’s a look at how domain name stocks performed for the year. For reference, the NASDAQ was up regarding 20% in 2025.
NameSilo (OTC: URL.CN): NameSilo’s Canadian shares followed up their 141% gain in 2024 with a 196% gain in 2025, nearly tripling in price. Its over-the-counter shares more than tripled.
Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX): Shares in Tucows were up 31% in 2025, rebounding from a 37% drop in 2024. Elliot Noss disclosed his retirement toward the end of the year, and the firm stated it’s trying to sell its fiber business. It will be interesting to see what happens with the fiber business and how this impacts the stock in 2026.
IONOS (IOS.DE): The European hosting and domain registration business saw its shares gain 21% in the year. In Q4, it stated it’s trying to sell Sedo since of the AdSense changes.
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN): Following finishing 2024 flat, Verisign’s stock increased 17% in 2025. It also started paying dividends.
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY): Following shares jumped 86% in 2024, GoDaddy’s shares declined 37% in 2025.
Team Internet Group (London AIM: CNIC): Team Internet’s shares fell 48% in a challenging year for the firm. It laid off employees in the aftermath of Google ending AdSense for Domains.
I do not own individual shares in publicly-traded domain name firms to avoid a conflict of interest. Mutual funds I own, counting index funds, do hold some of these stocks.
