Latest .com registrar 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 April 2022.

The results mirror what Verisign noted in its Q2 earnings: fresh registrations are down, particularly in China.

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

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 738,766
2. Namecheap Inc. 257,886
3. Newfold Digital+ 210,016
4. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 176,254
5. TurnCommerce 155,876
6. Dynadot 133,936
7. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 130,385
8. NameSilo 85,603
9. GMO 78,438
10. Wix 76,392

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

1. GoDaddy* 56,474,075
2. Newfold Digital+ 13,321,450
3. Tucows** 11,933,674
4. Namecheap 8,381,288
5. Alibaba 6,144,343
6. TurnCommerce++ 5,865,262
7. IONOS# 5,601,368
8. Google 5,418,008
9. CentralNic## 3,481,983
10. NameSilo 2,749,000

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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