GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace: Ranking the top domain name registrars for .com

Here’s the latest data regarding the .com namespace.

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

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

Godaddy once again generated nearly 100k fewer .com registrations than a year ahead of. I suspect GoDaddy is one of the firms Verisign is referring to when it states some registrars are focusing more on margin than registration growth.
Gname’s registrations were down significantly from the same month a year ago and compared to last month.
Namecheap surely crossed the 10 million .com mark in May of this year.
Squarespace continues to run regarding 100k shy of registrations per month compared to when Google Domains was a separate firm.

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of fresh registrations in April 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) 710,473 (802,360 in April 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 312,692 (282,235)
3. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) 169,183 (268,194)
4. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 168,568 (155,112)
5. Newfold Digital 150,400 (186,042)
6. Hostinger 112,250 (71,336)
7. Dynadot 104,239 (72,967)
8. Gname.com 85,667 (165,072)
9. Wix 78,763 (71,924)
10. TurnCommerce 70,082 (62,928)

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

1. GoDaddy 55,144,370 (56,488,083 in April 2023)
2. Newfold Digital 11,962,569 (12,842,673)
3. Tucows 10,828,785 (11,249,936)
4. Namecheap 9,881,966 (9,124,712)
5. Squarespace 8,139,336 (7,705,804)
6. TurnCommerce 5,986,833 (6,108,175)
7. IONOS 5,825,984 (5,511,469)
8. Gname 4,673,434 (3,692,471)
9. Alibaba 4,137,187 (4,386,091)
10. Team Internet Group 3,459,681 (3,707,602)

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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