Many registrars showed strong growth in the latest .com registration data.
ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2025.
Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:
- March was the end of the quarter, and registrars finished strong. Month-over-month, Newfold was +117k, GoDaddy was +88k, and Namecheap +69k.
- TurnCommerce has shed 1.4 million domains over the past 12 months, primarily from its own portfolio. Its buying is down substantially; the DropCatch registrars accounted for 27k registrations in March 2025, down from 97k in March 2024.
- As I predicted last month, Namecheap has surpassed another registrar in the overall DUMs list. It slipped past Newfold Digital into the #2 spot.
- Wix (NASDAQ: WIX) is knocking on the door of the top 10 overall, with 2.984 million .com domains under management.
Below is a chart showing the performance of the largest registrars in terms of new registrations in March 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) 722,697 (754,684 in March 2024)
2. Namecheap Inc. 435,627 (343,881)
3. Newfold Digital 241,822 (147,756)
4. Squarespace 193,515 (182,847)
5. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 170,025 (180,956)
6. Alibaba 146,659 (75,319)
7. Dynadot 146,029 (96,912)
8. IONOS 122,661 (77,929)
9. Gname 91,852 (133,359)
10. Team Internet 82,833 (35,206)
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of March.
1. GoDaddy 53,235,353 (55,379,789 in March 2024)
2. Namecheap 11,158,608 (9,790,460)
3. Newfold Digital 11,118,490 (12,046,628)
4. Tucows 10,664,848 (10,897,166)
5. Squarespace 8,391,068 (8,163,277)
6. IONOS 5,694,634 (5,826,722)
7. TurnCommerce 4,581,394 (5,999,088)
8. Gname 4,242,772 (4,627,951)
9. Alibaba 3,895,522 (4,139,661)
10. Team Internet Group 3,080,631 (3,501,679)
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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