The latest .com leaderboard

Here are the biggest and fastest-growing domain name registrars for .com domains.

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ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) regarding the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar note covers August 2022.

Fresh registrations at DropCatch/TurnCommerce fell a bit this month and Hong Kong Juming Network Technology Co., Ltd. hit the top 10 list two months in a row. On the total DUMs chart, IONOS swapped places with Alibaba.

Here’s how registrars did in terms of fresh .com registrations in August:

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 759,027 (700,635 in July)
2. Namecheap Inc. 300,556 (315,171)
3. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 203,276 (187,411)
4. Newfold Digital+ 156,731 (162,762)
5. Tucows** (NASDAQ: TCX) 133,415 (125,094)
6. Dynadot 106,516 (79,364)
7. Hong Kong Juming Network Technology Co., Ltd. 92,853 ( 83,668)
8. TurnCommerce 88,279 (122,566)
9. GMO 87,335 (80,798)
10. Realtime Register B.V. 76,226

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

1. GoDaddy* 55,980,591
2. Newfold Digital+ 13,459,239 (13,560,297 in July)
3. Tucows** 11,542,218 (11,619,259)
4. Namecheap 8,663,126 (8,587,548)
5. TurnCommerce++ 6,160,323 (6,086,331)
6. Google 5,810,379 (5,695,276)
7. IONOS# 5,462,082 (5,464,301)
8. Alibaba 5,420,447 (5,573,377)
9. CentralNic## 3,310,737 (3,336,606)
10. NameSilo 2,705,133 (2,720,422)

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

* Includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
+ 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.
++ Includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
# Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys and world4you
## Includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra

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