ICANN publishes latest .com data.
ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) about the .com registry. This registrar-by-registrar report covers May 2018.
There was little change on the charts. For new registrations, NameSilo lept above West.cn for the month. On the top 10 total registrations leaderboard, Xin Net swapped places with GMO.
In May, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations.
1. GoDaddy.com* 951,994 (960,904 in April)
2. HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. 210,854 (246,804)
3. Tucows** 207,430 (203,219)
4. Endurance+ 136,328 (153,352)
5. NameCheap Inc. 125,428 (127,855)
6. Xin Net Technology Corporation 125,152 (113,107)
7. Web.com++ 109,876 (103,385)
8. Google Inc. 98,618 (92,671)
9. NameSilo 67,446 (62,017)
10. West.cn 61,649 (74,741)
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of May 2018:
1. GoDaddy* 48,305,409 (48,088,605 in April)
2. Tucows** 12,875,098 (12,932,547)
3. Endurance+ 7,592,640 (7,725,154)
4. Web.com++ 6,709,055 (6,713,143)
5. HiChina 5,426,366 (5,298,573)
6. NameCheap 4,243,582 (4,222,952)
7. 1&1 3,744,506 (3,760,259)
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 2,076,944 (2,010,000)
9. GMO 2,064,482 (2,089,800)
10. Google 1,728,215 (1,663,836)
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
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