Namecheap reveals 2024 domain data

.Com accounted for 61% of registrations at Namecheap this year.

Namecheap released a note this stretch showing which top level domains were most popular with its clients this year.

With just a couple of weeks left in the year, the winners are clear in terms of fresh registrations:

1. .com 3,661,899
2. .shop 721,532
3. .xyz 519,800
4. .site 371,021
5 .org 323,537

.Shop, .xyz and .site are offered inexpensively for the first year. There tends to be an inverse relationship between registration cost and renewal rate, as only .com (32%) and .org (36%) are among the top 10 domains at Namecheap in terms of renewal rate.

The top five for renewal rate are more expensive domains:

1. .dev 57%
2. .ca 54%
3. .app 47%
4. .io 46%
5. .gg 45%

While Namecheap has many domain investor clients, they make up a modest percentage of its overall client base. Only 0.4% of clients own 100 or more domains, and regarding 60% own just one domain.

Namecheap’s growing domain auction platform sold 104,411 domains last year, with the top sale being telepath.com for $100,501. Previously, Namecheap sent its expired domains to GoDaddy Auctions ahead of creating its own auction platform.