Hostinger and GMO have a big month: Latest .com rankings

Latest numbers for the largest .com domain name registrars.

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

Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:

Hostinger, GMO and Realtime Register showed huge gains in fresh registrations in October compared to a year ago
Gname and Newfold Digital fell significantly in terms of fresh registrations
NameBright/DropCatch shed regarding a half million domains year-over-year, showing softness in the domain investor market

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of fresh registrations in October 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) 631,648 (752,613 in October 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 369,648 (304,155)
3. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 218,094 (170,236)
4. Hostinger 160,762 (85,029)
5. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) 158,667 (160,931)
6. Gname 110,389 (205,943)
7. Dynadot 109,862 (78,357)
8. GMO 106,382 (42,976)
9. Newfold Digital 92,452 (201,035)
10. Realtime Register 74,557 (4,093)

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

1. GoDaddy 53,854,088 (56,065,221 in October 2023)
2. Newfold Digital 11,435,798 (12,338,513)
3. Tucows 10,749,622 (11,076,704)
4. Namecheap 10,490,895 (9,428,909)
5. Squarespace 8,100,845 (8,173,894)
6. IONOS 5,690,821 (5,689,842)
7. TurnCommerce 5,460,757 (5,949,178)
8. Gname 4,383,783 (4,374,509)
9. Alibaba 3,912,555 (41,53,986)
10. Team Internet Group 3,028,931 (3,769,801)

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, PSI, 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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