.Com winners and losers

Here’s how registrars fared with .com in February.

ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from February.

Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations:

1. GoDaddy 912,763*
2. Rightside 203,096**
3. Tucows 106,910
4. PublicDomainRegistry 92,847
5. Network Solutions 62,104

When it comes to companies that won the transfer game, here are the top five registrars with retail operations for February. These numbers are the net gains after taking into consideration transfers-out:

1. eNom +14,150**
2. Uniregistry +12,332
3. Google +8,078
4. Epik +6,671
5. GMO/Onamae.com +5,439

Here are the registrars that lost the most to transfers, offset by the number of inbound transfers:

1. Melbourne IT -14,379
2. GoDaddy -11,868*
3. Moniker -11,387
4. Network Solutions -8,945
5. Tucows -8,214

*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes eNom and Name.com, but not dropcatching registrars.