Dynadot surges: Latest .com rankings

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

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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 November 2021.

On the monthly fresh registrations chart, Dynadot had an outsized month and came in at #3. Here’s how registrars did in terms of fresh .com registrations in November:

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 803,348 (830,105 in October)
2. Namecheap Inc. 270,852 (268,275)
3. Dynadot 193,435 (134,932)
4. Alibaba 167,636 (143,456)
5. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 150,051 (155,481 )
6. Newfold Digital+ 148,953 (162,235)
7. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 137,253 (143,147)
8. Registrar.eu 130114
9. NameSilo 118,228
10. TurnCommerce 102,672 (119,019)

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

1. GoDaddy* 56,423,301 (56,320,085 in October)
2. Newfold Digital+ 13,824,517 (13,957,701)
3. Tucows** 12,347,825 (12,372,173)
4. Namecheap 8,207,016 (8,120,913)
5. Alibaba 6,468,929 (6,487,283)
6. IONOS# 5,781,428 (5,902,793)
7. TurnCommerce++ 5,491,370 (5,438,239)
8. Google 4,949,365 (4,884,236)
9. CentralNic## 3,604,210 (3,633,182)
10. NameSilo 2,628,491 (2,551,807)

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, 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

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