NameSilo and Tucows lead gainers; Team Internet and GoDaddy saw steep declines.
With 2025 in the books, here’s a look at how domain name stocks performed for the year. For reference, the NASDAQ was up about 20% in 2025.
NameSilo (OTC: URL.CN): NameSilo’s Canadian shares followed up their 141% gain in 2024 with a 196% gain in 2025, nearly tripling in price. Its over-the-counter shares more than tripled.
Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX): Shares in Tucows were up 31% in 2025, rebounding from a 37% drop in 2024. Elliot Noss announced his retirement toward the end of the year, and the company said it’s trying to sell its fiber business. It will be interesting to see what happens with the fiber business and how this impacts the stock in 2026.
IONOS (IOS.DE): The European hosting and domain registration business saw its shares gain 21% in the year. In Q4, it said it’s trying to sell Sedo because of the AdSense changes.
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN): After finishing 2024 flat, Verisign’s stock increased 17% in 2025. It also started paying dividends.
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY): After shares jumped 86% in 2024, GoDaddy’s shares declined 37% in 2025.
Team Internet Group (London AIM: CNIC): Team Internet’s shares fell 48% in a challenging year for the company. It laid off employees in the aftermath of Google ending AdSense for Domains.
I do not own individual shares in publicly-traded domain name companies to avoid a conflict of interest. Mutual funds I own, including index funds, do hold some of these stocks.
Stick to Amazon stock and you will be happy and rich in 5 yrs from now…. every one needs Amazon because of the convenience, easy return policy and the low cost…you can’t beat that.. we all depend on Amazon now .
I invested in Amazon in the early 1990s..
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GoDaddy’s best days are behind it.
Godaddy is so bad. I am in the process of moving close to 1,000 domains from them that were moved over from Franks uniregistry.com when they bought his company. I refuse to sell any domains though them whenever they contact me.