Go Daddy and Google popular among Y Combinator companies.
Where do Y Combinator’s startups register their domains and host email? Here’s a handy chart generated in August using domain-profiler.
Go Daddy dominates the domain registration business for Y Combinator startups, according to the chart. Go Daddy also has a large share of the SSL market. On the email side, most of the startups are fans of Google.
When it comes to web hosting, a good number rely on Amazon’s backbone, and SoftLayer and Slicehost also have a good share of the business.
Another thing you might notice by looking at the list is that many of Y Combinator’s startups are customers of Bad Web Site Naming, Inc. From webmynd.com to wundrbar.com to bountii.com, perhaps Y Combinator needs to offer some more advice on name selection.
jorge says
How different is that registrar chart from the pie chart that would be created for the “general public”? Godaddy dominates no matter how you look at it.
Andrew Allemann says
jorge – GoDaddy gets about 45% to 50% of new registrations, so it’s actually quite a bit higher than the general public (but the sample size is small)
recipes says
funny Google is an icann registrar too :p
Kevin Ohashi says
Perhaps the overall charts are distorted by domainers and that’s a more accurate picture of non-professional domain purchasing.
Andrew Allemann says
Kevin – good point. Too small a sample to really tell, but it’s interesting.
EM @ KING.NET says
I thought the AMS service of Amazon.com is confusing because of rates factor. I need to go back and learn more.
Thanks for sharing the stats.
Domain Investor says
Yes, Google is a registrar but with no activity. I believe they use it to monitor what domains drop so they can remove them from the ranking.
Google, Inc (United States)
Murali Viswanathan Tel: 1-650-214-6375
Email: [email protected]
Registrar #895
(Public information)
Google keeps their domains at MarkMonitor.
Go figure !!!