Namecheap releases interesting data regarding domain registrations

Note looks and recent and historical data on domain registrations at the registrar.

Namecheap released a note today with data regarding its clients and their choice of top level domain names. The note includes data from the past ten years as well as more recent data incorporating fresh top level domains.

It can be difficult to compare registration data that doesn’t take into consideration the price of domain names; indeed, Namecheap excluded .xyz and Famous Four Media’s domains from some of its calculations.

Here’s what I found interesting:

1. .US was within the top three most-registered country code domains among Namecheaps clients from January 2017-June 2018. That’s not a huge surprise. The surprise is that it’s among the top three for registrants from Asia, Europe, Africa and South America in addition to the United States. It’s the #1 country code domain amongst Namecheap’s Asian clients. Perhaps promotions played a role.

2. Over the past ten years, June has been the most active month for domain registrations at Namecheap. November and October are #2 and #3, respectively.

3. Nearly half of Namecheap’s clients have registered just one domain with the firm:

The full note is available to download on Namecheap’s website.