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The biggest .com registrars, ranked

The biggest .com registrars, ranked

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 May 2024.

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

  • Hostinger made the top 10 fresh registrations list for the second month in a row. The registrar has regarding 1.4 million .coms under management.
  • Squarespace continues to trend regarding 100k fewer fresh .com registrations per month compared to when Google Domains was a separate entity.
  • GoDaddy has 1.5 million fewer .com domains under management than it did a year ago.
  • Newfold had a good month thanks to strong performance at PDR and Network Solutions.

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of fresh registrations in May 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 715,382 (NYSE: GDDY) (779,297 in May 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 335,332 (299,516)
3. Newfold Digital 196,348 (158,374)
4. Tucows 175,688 (NASDAQ: TCX) (156,274)
5. Squarespace 160,973 (NYSE: SQSP) (270,614)
6. Dynadot 88,731 (67,835)
7. Gname.com 86,529 (145,097)
8. Wix 74,631 (76,703)
9. Hostinger 74,139 (33,846)
10. Ionos 66,029 (67,886)

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

1. GoDaddy 54,893,954 (56,407,848 in May 2023)
2. Newfold Digital 11,968,805 (12,733,637)
3. Tucows 10,799,419 (11,211,196)
4. Namecheap 9,997,441 (9,207,956)
5. Squarespace 8,108,885 (7,846,699)
6. TurnCommerce 5,936,809 (6,075,792)
7. IONOS 5,818,733 (5,506,722)
8. Gname 4,645,341 (3,866,941)
9. Alibaba 4,079,329 (4,366,133)
10. Team Internet Group 3,345,741 (3,800,616)

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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