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Network Solutions in Domain Name Registrations — Tucows Leaps

Network Solutions in Domain Name Registrations — Tucows Leaps

Tucows overtakes “original” registrar Network Solutions.


Registrar rankings from RegistrarStats.com

I’ve been doing a lot or ranking watching over the past 48 hours. I’m a Texas Longhorns fan, and axiously awaited results from the Coaches Poll, Harris Poll, and BCS over the weekend. The Longhorns ended in a three way tie with Texas Tech and Oklahoma University in the Big 12 South. The three way tie was broken by BCS rankings — and OU narrowly edged out Texas. So the Longhorns beat both of the teams in the Big 12 Championship by double digits this year. Go figure.

But there’s another ranking that has been shaken up lately. The latest data from RegistrarStats.com places Tucows (AMEX: TCX) neck-and-neck with the “original” domain registrar Network Solutions for total domains under management. As stated by the site, both registrars have regarding 6.65 million domains under management. Tucows has picked up 49,860 registrations in the past month and Network Solutions lost regarding 6,000 in the same period. In the past 60 days Tucows has picked up over 100,000 registrations, second only to GoDaddy.

The battle of domain registrars is really a battle for second place. With over 30 million domains registered, GoDaddy has almost four times as many domains under management as the second largest registrar (eNom).

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