The latest .com leaderboard

These are the fastest growing and biggest domain name registrars for .com domains.

ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2021.

Here’s how registrars did in terms of new .com registrations in October:

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 830,105 (775,868 in September)
2. Namecheap Inc. 268,275 (269,914)
3. Newfold Digital+ 162,235 (166,256)
4. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 155,481 (152,529)
5. Alibaba (HiChina) 143,456 (173,141)
6. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 143,147 (136,703)
7. Dynadot 134,932
8. GMO 128,819
9. TurnCommerce 119,019 (119,143)
10. IONOS# 108,198 (108,291)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations under management as of the end of October.

1. GoDaddy* 56,320,085 (56,210,351 in September)
2. Newfold Digital+ 13,957,701 (14,091,579)
3. Tucows** 12,372,173 (12,480,235)
4. Namecheap 8,120,913 (8,073,928)
5. Alibaba 6,487,283 (6,552,013)
6. IONOS# 5,902,793 (5,914,962)
7. TurnCommerce++ 5,438,239 (5,374,727)
8. Google 4,884,236 (4,814,514)
9. CentralNic## 3,633,182 (3,592,842)
10. NameSilo 2,551,807 (2,504,815)

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

* Includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, SnapNames registrars, and Crazy Domains/Dreamscape. There are other Newfold registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
# Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys and world4you
## Includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra