Registrar stats: GoDaddy rebounds and Namecheap surges

GoDaddy back above 600k monthly adds; Namecheap adds nearly 400k .coms.

ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers January 2025.

Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:

• GoDaddy had a better January than the month prior (when it dipped below 600k), although it was still down for monthly adds year over year.
• Namecheap added nearly 400k new .coms for the month, bolstered by a discount at sister registrar Spaceship.
• Hostinger was back in the top 10 for monthly adds.

Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of new registrations in January 2025, which are the latest available numbers. Note that the rankings include multiple registrar accreditations within families of registrars. You can see the list of registrars at the end of this post.

1. GoDaddy.com (NYSE: GDDY) 655,670 (729,582 in January 2024)
2. Namecheap Inc. 399,909 (309,133)
3. Squarespace 176,964 (173,067)
4. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 167,118 (177,540)
5. Hostinger 164,584 (120,688)
6. Gname 146,488 (138,537)
7. Newfold Digital 121,574 (172,230)
8. Alibaba 106,105 (72,728)
9. IONOS 88,613 (82,060)
10. Dynadot 81,964 (74,262)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of January.

1. GoDaddy 53,291,154 (55,612,116 in January 2024)
2. Newfold Digital 11,110,007 (12,173,960)
3. Tucows 10,691,686 (10,952,352)
4. Namecheap 10,856,941 (9,588,294)
5. Squarespace 8,248,455 (8,151,239)
6. IONOS 5,665,293 (5,793,480)
7. TurnCommerce 4,923,213 (5,957,950)
8. Gname 4,235,302 (4,547,923)
9. Alibaba 3,861,407 (4,165,292)
10. Team Internet Group 3,021,012 (3,647,574)

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

• GoDaddy includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains, MeshDigital, the 5 “Go Country” registrars, and 123 Reg
• Namecheap includes Namecheap and Spaceship
• Tucows includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
• Newfold Digital Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, MarkMonitor, SnapNames registrars, and Crazy Domains/Dreamscape. There are other Newfold registrars, but these are the biggest.
• Squarespace includes Squarespace and Google
• TurnCommerce Includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
• IONOS includes Includes 1&1, InterNetX, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys, and world4you
• Team Internet Group includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra