Top? .Com Leaderboard update — Who’s on

These are the fastest growing and largest 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 May 2021.

CentralNic surged back into the top 10 for monthly registrations with a strong performance at its Internet BS registrar. Other than that, there’s not much noteworthy this month…other than strong numbers for .com registrations overall.

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

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 1,012,078 (943,953 in April)
2. Namecheap Inc. 279,546 (268,394)
3. Alibaba (HiChina) 223,588 (236,681)
4. CentralNic^^ 179,098 (AIM: CNIC)
4. Newfold Digital+ 178,969 (181,739)
5. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 167,300 (166,169)
6. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 162,262 (161,105)
7. Dynadot 148,815 (138,560)
8. NameSilo 107,059 (103,342)
9. Wix (NASDAQ: WIX) 98,571 (96,984)

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

1. GoDaddy* 56,259,057 56,324,284 (56,259,057 in April)
2. Newfold Digital+ 14,561,403 (14,551,259)
3. Tucows** 12,862,281 (12,924,199)
4. Namecheap 7,733,383 (7,631,693)
5. Alibaba 6,353,049 (6,271,240)
6. IONOS^ 5,927,252 (5,942,360)
7. TurnCommerce++ 4,897,679 (4,789,133)
8. Google 4,539,761 (4,467,691)
9. CentralNic^^ 3,345,295 (3,218,595)
10. NameSilo 2,258,658 (2,196,964)

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 and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, 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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