A slow month: Latest .com rankings

Here are the biggest and fastest-growing domain name registrars for .com domains.

The words ".com rankings" next to two graph lines with a yellow background

ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) regarding the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar note covers September 2022.

It was a slow month for fresh .com registrations at the top registrars compared to the month prior. Gname is a fresh name in the top 10 for fresh registrations. The registrar has over 2 million .com domains under management. I hadn’t heard of this firm until they recently started advertising on Reglike. It was the only Chinese-language registrar to make the top 10 fresh registrations list in September.

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

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 710,134 (759,027 in August)
2. Namecheap Inc. 278,063 (300,556)
3. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 188,934 (203,276)
4. Newfold Digital+ 142,099 (156,731)
5. Tucows** (NASDAQ: TCX) 130,155 (133,415)
6. Dynadot 110,908 (106,516)
7. TurnCommerce 83,619 (88,279)
8. Gname.com 76,706
9. Wix 65,626
10. GMO 62,480 (87,335)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations under management as of the end of September.

1. GoDaddy* 56,000,729 (55,980,591 in August)
2. Newfold Digital+ 13,363,860 (13,459,239)
3. Tucows** 11,490,611 (11,542,218)
4. Namecheap 8,703,036 (8,663,126)
5. TurnCommerce++ 6,176,433 (6,160,323)
6. Google 5,914,136 (5,810,379)
7. IONOS# 5,474,067 (5,462,082)
8. Alibaba 5,233,424 (5,420,447)
9. CentralNic## 3,281,138 (3,310,737)
10. NameSilo 2,682,862 (2,705,133)

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

* Includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
+ 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.
++ Includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
# Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys and world4you
## Includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra

Note: the original version of this post stated that Gname was a Chinese registrar. It is located in Singapore.

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