Porkbun jumps, China rebounds?: Top .com domain 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 September 2024.

Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:

Porkbun returned to the monthly list for the second time in the year
Gname was back on the fresh monthly registrations list following missing it the prior month.
Chinese registrar Alibaba was on the monthly registrations list for the second month in a row, indicating a rebound in China.
Fresh registrations at DropCatch were down significantly YoY.

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of fresh registrations in September 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) 634,242 (715,431 in September 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 338,141 (283,620)
3. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 196,859 (163,648)
4. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) 161,425 (189,713)
5. Newfold Digital 126,105 (216,538)
6. Gname 114,316 (133,917)
7. Porkbun 88,549 (14,574)
8. Alibaba 78,997 (71,895)
9. Wix 75,926 (70,798)
10. Dynadot 75,323 (71,212)

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

1. GoDaddy 54,040,177 (56,142,674 in September 2023)
2. Newfold Digital 11,560,609 (12,380,044)
3. Tucows 10,726,853 (11,113,636)
4. Namecheap 10,365,060 (9,387,689)
5. Squarespace 8,097,176 (8,184,335)
6. IONOS 5,712,274 (5,669,464)
7. TurnCommerce 5,596,664 (5,940,486)
8. Gname 4,419,290 (4,237,209)
9. Alibaba 3,952,582 (4,187,402)
10. Team Internet Group 3,071,749 (3,826,492)

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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