Strong growth at its Spaceship registrar propelled Namecheap into #2 spot for .com domains under management.
ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers February 2025.
Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:
- Namecheap+Spaceship has overtaken Tucows to be the third-largest .com registrar overall. It has likely overtaken Newfold Digital as well, but this won’t reflect in the results for a month or two. Spaceship had approximately 750k .com domains as of the end of February, up from just 200k a year ago.
- Of the top ten registrars, only Namecheap and Squarespace had year-over-year growth.
- Hostinger had another very strong month for new adds
Below is a chart showing how the largest registrars did in terms of new registrations in February 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) 634,540 (691,430 in February 2024)
2. Namecheap Inc. 366,542 (309,416)
3. Squarespace 176,890 (168,976)
4. Hostinger 173,975 (75,714)
5. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 154,305 (171,327)
6. Newfold Digital 124,449 (114,444)
7. Dynadot 103,489 (90,935)
8. Alibaba 89,835 (38,003)
9. IONOS 85,119 (78,359)
6. Gname 78,237 (95,077)
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of February.
1. GoDaddy 53,259,003 (55,492,984 in February 2024)
2. Newfold Digital 11,071,386 (12,108,397)
3. Namecheap 10,980,503 (9,678,811)
4. Tucows 10,674,979 (10,930,469)
5. Squarespace 8,321,449 (8,165,945)
6. IONOS 5,648,837 (5,813,702)
7. TurnCommerce 4,761,540 (5,969,148)
8. Gname 4,222,850 (4,565,078)
9. Alibaba 3,851,680 (4,135,357)
10. Team Internet Group 3,040,728 (3,562,665)
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
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