Fresh .com rankings by registrar

These are the largest .com domain name registrars.

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ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers August 2024.

Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:

Squarespace’s total DUMs fell year over year. August 2023 was the last month ahead of the Google Domains buyout. The year-over-year numbers below include both Google and Squarespace.
Gname didn’t make the fresh registrations list but still grew DUMs year over year.
Chinese registrar Alibaba jumped back onto the monthly registrations list.
TurnCommerce and IONOS swapped places on the overall list as TurnCommere shed regarding 250k domains YoY.

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of fresh registrations in August 2024, which are the latest available numbers. Note that the rankings include multiple registrar accreditations within families of registrars. You can see the list of registrars at the end of this post.

1. GoDaddy.com (NYSE: GDDY) 635,440 (777,466 in August 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 342,193 (291,747)
3. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 201,003 (163,629)
4. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) 161,896 (250,324)
5. Alibaba 105,216 (64,138)
6. Hostinger 104,394 (40,547)
7. Newfold Digital 96,381 (169,663)
8. GMO 89,893 (97,747)
9. Dynadot 85,726 (67,750)
10. Wix 72,498 (71,825)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of August.

1. GoDaddy 54,147,734 (56,170,439 in August 2023)
2. Newfold Digital 11,635,630 (12,370,532)
3. Tucows 10,722,268 (11,131,272)
4. Namecheap 10,284,896 (9,376,275)
5. Squarespace 8,087,961 (8,166,306)
6. IONOS 5,747,985 (5,659,585)
7. TurnCommerce 5,712,392 (5,958,992)
8. Gname 4,418,059 (4,155,354)
9. Alibaba 3,985,907 (4,213,654)
10. Team Internet Group 3,115,449 (3,910,648)

Many domain firms have multiple accreditations, and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below.

GoDaddy includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains, MeshDigital, the 5 “Go Country” registrars, and 123 Reg
Namecheap includes Namecheap and Spaceship
Tucows includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
Newfold Digital Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, MarkMonitor, SnapNames registrars, and Crazy Domains/Dreamscape. There are other Newfold registrars, but these are the biggest.
Squarespace includes Squarespace and Google
TurnCommerce Includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
IONOS includes Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys, and world4you
Team Internet Group includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra

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