A look at the biggest domain name registrars.
ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers April 2025.
Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:
- Squarespace continues to show year-over-year growth after lapping its acquisition of Google Domains.
- IONOS showed strong monthly results from its IONOS and InterNetX brands.
- If current trends continue, Gname might take over TurnCommerce on the total DUMs chart as the latter scales back.
Below is a chart showing the performance of the largest registrars in terms of new registrations in April 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) 658,363 (710,473 in April 2024)
2. Namecheap Inc. 399,306 (312,692)
3. Squarespace 182,341 (169,183)
4. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 161,704 (168,568)
5. Dynadot 153,695 (104,239)
6. Hostinger 147,935 (112,250)
7. IONOS 142,926 (69,342)
8. Newfold Digital 128,113 (150,400)
9. Gname 126,990 (85,667)
10. Alibaba 103,076 (63,909)
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of April.
1. GoDaddy 53,085,622 (55,144,370 in April 2024)
2. Namecheap 11,293,509 (9,881,966)
3. Newfold Digital 11,002,312 (11,962,569)
4. Tucows 10,623,032 (10,828,785)
5. Squarespace 8,431,611 (8,139,336)
6. IONOS 5,743,915 (5,825,984)
7. TurnCommerce 4,423,352 (5,986,833)
8. Gname 4,321,595 (4,6734,34)
9. Alibaba 3,918,702 (4,137,187)
10. Team Internet Group 3,058,730 (3,459,681)
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
Can you please explain the numbers not in parens? You state the numbers in parens are Apr 2025. So this means what for Section 1? GD grew and NC shrunk? And this means what for Section 2 (since you show parens are Apr 2024)? GoDaddy shrunk and NC grew?
It’s a little error. For the first set he meant to say “(710,473 in April 2024)”
The first set indicates number of registrations in April ’25, so it shows that GD had about 10% less new reg’s in April ’25 than it did in April ’24.
The second set it Total Registrations, so it shows that the number of registrations GD had in April ’25 also decreased compared to what it had in April ’24.
This is correct, sorry about the error. Fixed