The latest .Com Leaderboard

Here’s how registrars performed in the latest official Verisign report.

ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign about the .com registry. This registrar-by-registrar report covers April 2018.

Chinese registrars continued to add .com domains at a nice clip in April.

In April, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations.

1. GoDaddy.com* 960,904 (975,008 in March)
2. HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. 246,804 (252,159)
3. Tucows** 203,219 (217,900)
4. Endurance+ 153,352 (170,700)
5. NameCheap Inc. 127,855 (131,423)
6. Xin Net Technology Corporation 113,107 (173,893)
7. Web.com++ 103,385 (109,275)
8. Google Inc. 92,671 (96,621)
9. West.cn 74,741 (81,838)
10. NameSilo 62,017 (65,566)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of April 2018:

1. GoDaddy* 48,088,605 (47,815,002 in March)
2. Tucows** 12,932,547 (12,960,646)
3. Endurance+ 7,725,154 (7,793,869
4. Web.com++ 6,713,143 (6,721,816)
5. HiChina 5,298,573 (5,156,343)
6. NameCheap 4,222,952 (4,195,705)
7. 1&1 3,760,259 (3,771,035)
8. GMO 2,089,800 (2,097,311)
9. Xin Net Technology Corporation 2,010,000 (1,928,276)
10. Google 1,663,836 (1,603,663)

Many domain companies have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below.

* 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