Namecheap gets boost from bulk transfer from Tucows.
ICANN has published the latest official .com data from January.
January is typically an up month for domain name registrations as the year kicks off, and you’ll see that in the data.
Namecheap lept up the top registrar chart to #6 thanks to a massive bulk transfer of domains from Tucows.
In January, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations:
1. GoDaddy.com* 974,020 (842,032 in December)
2. Tucows** 220,521 (167,285)
3. Endurance+ 175,515 (155,589)
4. HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. 143,353 (125,286)
5. NameCheap Inc. 134,155 (117,990)
6. Xin Net Technology Corporation 127,808 (89,455)
7. Web.com++ 105,596 (88,067)
8. Google Inc. 96,020 (73,704)
9. NameSilo 60,280
10. West.cn 55,931
Here’s the current leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of December 2017. There were approximately 135.5 million total .com domains registered as of the end of January:
1. GoDaddy* 47,161,126 (46,830,764 in December)
2. Tucows** 13,123,965 (15,578,732)
3. Endurance+ 7,927,353 (8,006,707)
4. Web.com++ 6,684,867 (6,666,853)
5. HiChina 5,129,880 (5,281,736)
6. NameCheap 3,960,861 (1,469,175)
7. 1&1 3,770,121 (3,780,143)
8. GMO 2,171,151 (2,196,043)
9. Xin Net Technology Corporation 1753431 (1,653,909)
10. Google 1,466,445 (1,391,333)
Many domain companies have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below and let me know if I’ve missed any large registrars.
* Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains
** Includes Tucows and Enom
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
Biobot says
Godaddy raised the price of two $11 domain name. The first one they changed its price while in my cart twice. It went from .99 to 2,500. One day later they moved it to Auction Only.
The second time I put a generic named name in my cart. The next day they moved to to Auction Only. So I went to Network Soutions and it was for sale at their standard $11 or $12.
Point B. says
Cool story