Top .com registrars, ranked

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

The words ".com rankings" next to two graph lines with a yellow background

ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) regarding the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar note covers March 2023.

It’s interesting to think regarding how this chart will change later this year with Squarespace’s buyout of Google Domains. Some current Google registrar clients will move elsewhere, but it’s a guarantee that Squarespace will jump from outside the top 20 registrars to the top 10 following the buyout.

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

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 860,280 (763,837 in February 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 295,680 (267,371)
3. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 252,288 (227,693)
4. Newfold Digital+ 218,143 (166,623)
5. Tucows** (NASDAQ: TCX) 161,483 (150,467)
6. Gname.com 128,834 (77,360)
7. Alibaba 123,153
8. CentralNic 111,525 (141,521)
9. GMO 78,311 (77,776)
10. Wix 77,240 (69,824)
10. IONOS 73,967 (67,517)

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

1. GoDaddy* 56,044,730 (55,940,212 in February 2023)
2. Newfold Digital+ 12,915,496 (12,926,368)
3. Tucows** 11,292,862 (11,300,918)
4. Namecheap 9,072,614 (8,973,624)
5. Google 6,680,045 (6,522,073)
6. TurnCommerce++ 6,137,066 (6,164,131)
7. IONOS# 5,522,128 (5,504,915)
8. Alibaba 4,381,857 (4,404,155)
9. CentralNic## 3,640,287 (3,575,252)
10. GNAME 3,449,704 (3,201,177)

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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