Here are the biggest and fastest-growing domain name registrars for .com domains.
ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers February 2023.
CentralNic had a strong month for new registrations after receiving an larger-than-normal performance from its Key-Systems brand.
Here’s how registrars did in terms of new .com registrations in February:
1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 763,837 (779,935 in January 2023)
2. Namecheap Inc. 267,371 (287,015)
3. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 227,693 (241,112)
4. Newfold Digital+ 166,623 (158,231)
5. Tucows** (NASDAQ: TCX) 150,467 (169,605)
6. CentralNic 141,521 (80,023)
7. GMO 77,776 (111,852)
8. Gname.com 77,360 (94,345)
9. Wix 69,824 (75,481)
10. IONOS 67,517
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations under management as of the end of February.
1. GoDaddy* 55,940,212 (55,903,000 in January 2023)
2. Newfold Digital+ 12,926,368 (12,977,415)
3. Tucows** 11,300,918 (11,325,219)
4. Namecheap 8,973,624 (8,918,940)
5. Google 6,522,073 (6,374,991)
6. TurnCommerce++ 6,164,131 (6,180,371)
7. IONOS# 5,504,915 (5,495,138)
8. Alibaba 4,404,155 (4,548,403)
9. CentralNic## 3,575,252 (3,460,216)
10. GNAME 3,201,177 (3,052,943)
Many domain companies 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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