.Com Winners Update: Google Domains is Growing

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

ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June.

As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of new registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses.

But the bigger story to me is Google, which is growing its new registrar at a rapid clip. Google continues to get lots of inbound transfers, and also generated 18,675 new .com registrations in June. It ended the month with over 200,000 .com domains.

Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three month delay. So this post is about June’s results.

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

1. GoDaddy* 880,326
2. eNom** 217,031
3. HiChina 151,048
4. PublicDomainRegistry 119,963
5. Tucows 111,466

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

1. eNom +15,395
2. Google +6,592
3. HiChina +6,145
4. eName +5,375
5. MarkMonitor +5,075

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

1. MelbourneIT -13,329
2. Domain Discover -11,295
3. Network Solutions -9,252
4. Tucows -8,940
5. Moniker -8,562

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