Here’s how registrars fared with .com in April.
ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from April.
Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations:
1. GoDaddy* 939,282
2. eNom** 213,549
3. HiChina 173,730
4. PublicDomainRegistry 110,705
5. Tucows 109,715
When it comes to companies that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars for April with retail operations. These numbers are the net gains after taking into consideration transfers-out:
1. Uniregistry +55,617
2. HiChina +8,324
3. Google +7,129
4. eName +6,641
5. NameSilo +5,447
Here are the registrars that lost the most to transfers, offset by the number of inbound transfers:
1. eNom** -36,542
2. Network Solutions -16,656
3. GoDaddy* -13,075
4. MelbournIT -12,515
5. Moniker -11,381
*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes eNom and Name.com, but not dropcatching registrars.
Acro says
I think the transfer numbers should include the percentage of loss or gain, which, in the case of GoDaddy, would be a very negligible loss due to the total number of domains under management.
Andrew Allemann says
That is true. Hopefully by viewing the first set of numbers people will realize that.