Fresh rankings: Top .com domain name registrars

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 July 2024.

A few things stand out in this month’s note:

Hostinger had another strong month.
While Porkbun’s stay in the top ten lasted only a month, it still had over 3x as many fresh registrations in July compared to a year ago.
It’s worth noting that only four of the top ten registrars by total .com domains are growing year over year.

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of fresh registrations in July 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) 658,152 (737,274 in July 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 342,411 (294,312)
3. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 197,287 (168,210)
4. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) 166,443 (249,968)
5. Hostinger 145,644 (91,538)
6. Newfold Digital 129,008 (149,092)
7. Dynadot 91,178 (74,143)
8. Gname.com 89,355 (112,957)
9. GMO 86,491 (108,153)
10. Wix 72,742 (73,922)

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

1. GoDaddy 54,356,015 (56,175,771 in July 2023)
2. Newfold Digital 11,734,201 (12,459,562)
3. Tucows 10,735,105 (11,157,114)
4. Namecheap 10,169,696 (9,324,881)
5. Squarespace 8,092,688 (8,076,685)
6. TurnCommerce 5,815,523 (6,004,760)
7. IONOS 5,803,617 (5,611,704)
8. Gname 4,505,800 (4,076,703)
9. Alibaba 3,955,047 (4,269,240)
10. Team Internet Group 3,185,745 (3,866,198)

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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