Latest .Com Winners & Losers
How domain name registrars fared with .com in June.
ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) regarding the .com registry. This registrar-by-registrar note covers June 2018.
There was shifting among the top ten registrars for June in terms of fresh .com registrations. West.cn fell off the list when its volume fell from 61,649 to only 35,460. NameSilo, which just cracked the 2 million domains under management (across all TLDs) mark, was #7 with over 100,000 registrations.
1. GoDaddy.com* 866,819 (951,994 in May)
2. HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. 203,536 (210,854)
3. Tucows** 192,056 (207,430)
4. Xin Net Technology Corporation 132,636 (125,152)
5. NameCheap Inc. 117,964 (125,428)
6. Endurance+ 117,369 (136,328)
7. NameSilo 105,228 (67,446)
8. Web.com++ 96,339 (109,876)
9. Google Inc. 89,914 (98,618)
10. 1&1 Internet 48,692
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of June 2018:
1. GoDaddy* 48,452,314 (48,305,409 in May)
2. Tucows** 12,835,741 (12,875,098)
3. Endurance+ 7,500,686 (7,592,640)
4. Web.com++ 6,737,824 (6,709,055)
5. HiChina 5,527,250 (5,426,366)
6. NameCheap 4,284,760 (4,243,582)
7. 1&1 3,731,057 (3,744,506)
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 2,172,780 (2,076,944)
9. GMO 2,035,462 (2,064,482)
10. Google 1,782,920 (1,728,215)
Many domain firms have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below.
* Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains
** Includes Tucows and Enom
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
