Reglikedomain industry desk

Latest .com Winners & Losers

Here’s how registrars fared with .com in March.

ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly note, containing data from March.

Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most fresh .com domain name registrations:

1. GoDaddy* 1,001,339
2. eNom** 227,918
3. HiChina 165,567
4. PublicDomainRegistry 127,377
5. Tucows 118,454

When it comes to firms that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars with retail operations for March. These numbers are the net gains following taking into consideration transfers-out:

1. Uniregistry +20,202
2. Japan Registry Services +9,819
3. Annulet +8,528
4. HiChina +8,046
5. Google +7,818

Here are the registrars that lost the most to transfers, offset by the number of inbound transfers:

1. Moniker -17,626
2. Tucows -14,664
3. MelbourneIT -14,643
4. Network Solutions -13,317
5. 1&1 -6,280

*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes eNom and Name.com, but not dropcatching registrars.

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