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The Latest .Com Winners & Losers

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Latest data shows little change.

ICANN published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for May 2017.

Little has changed in the top spots, with GoDaddy leading the way and Tucows, which now includes Enom, coming in second place.

Here are the top registrars in terms of new .com registrations for May:

1. GoDaddy* 930,127
2. Tucows** 190,589
3. HiChina 145,636
4. PublicDomainRegistry 124,470
5. Namecheap 122,598

Here are the top five registrars (open to the public) for net inbound transfers during the month:

1. HiChina +18669
2. GoDaddy +9,022
3. Google +7,816
4. TurnCommerce (Namebright) +6,199
5. MAFF Inc (XZ.com) +5,920

On the flip side, these five registrars saw the biggest net outflow of .com domain names due to transfers:

1. Tucows -13,170
2. PublicDomainRegistry -6,688
3. Fabulous -4,950
4. 1&1 -4,070
5. Domain.com –3979

*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes Tucows and ENom.

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A strong month for .com; here are the winners & losers

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A strong month for .com domain name registrations.

ICANN has published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for March 2017.

March was a strong one with 3.22 million new .com domain registrations. Compare this to March 2016 when there were 3.08 million new .com registrations.

The top registrars in terms of new registrations saw little movement. HiChina and PublicDomainRegistry swapped places but there were no new entrants:

1. GoDaddy* 1,044,706
2. Tucows** 243,851
3. HiChina 157,460
4. PublicDomainRegistry 131,107
5. Namecheap 130,995

Here are the top five registrars (open to the public) for net inbound transfers during the month:

1. HiChina +19,877
2. Epik +8,405
3. NameBright +8,347
4. Google +8,199
5. XZ.com +5,306

On the flip side, these five registrars saw the biggest net outflow of .com domain names due to transfers:

1. Web.com*** -10,452
2. Tucows -7,137
3. PublicDomainRegistry -5,912
4. Fabulous -5,685
5. 1&1 -4,759

*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes Tucows and eNom *** Includes Network Solutions and Register.com, but not drop catching registrars.

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Official data show effects of Chinese domain investment bonanza

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What happened in December, the one year anniversary of the Chinese investment bonanza.

ICANN just published data from Verisign about .com activity in December.

This was the one year anniversary of lots of Chinese speculative registrations, and the deletions were massive.

eName had 794,258 domains delete. HiChina saw 532,231 names delete. 22net had 125,766 deletions.

These numbers were significantly higher than November for eName and HiChina, but lower for 22net.

Now, let’s look at how the registrars fared with new registrations and transfers in December: Click here to see the charts…

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Chinese registrars lose of lot of .com, but HiChina picks up domains from others

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Official data from November show some interesting domain movement.

ICANN just published data from Verisign about .com activity in November. This was right in the thick of the anniversary of the “Chinese surge” and the data show it.

GoDaddy has the most expired deletions because it’s the biggest, but check out these huge deletion numbers at Chinese registrars:

22net 339,307
eName 315,143
HiChina 265,138

I imagine these numbers increased in December, but we’ll have to wait a month to find out.

You’ll see below that HiChina also had massive inbound transfers, and conversely, eName and 22net lost a lot. So it appears HiChina picked up some domains from them. Maybe it was an investor buying out other investors?

Now, let’s get to the normal charts that I track each month for .Com Winners & Losers… Click here to see the charts…

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.Com Winners & Losers: Chinese registrars, Uniregistry continue surge

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Chinese surge continues in latest .com reports

ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from October, and it shows the continued surge of registrations in China.

Last month I wrote about how two Chinese domain name registrars, HiChina and eName, surged into the top 5 registrars worldwide for .com registrations. Both registrars remain in the top 5 in the latest report.

Also, Uniregistry led the “net transfers in” board for the second month in a row. Its net new .com adds are relatively small in comparison to inbound transfers.

Note that ICANN publishes registry reports three months in arrears, so these official numbers are from October.

Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations:

1. GoDaddy* 856,845
2. eName 326,125
3. HiChina 294,305
4. eNom** 229,655
5. PublicDomainRegistry 125,145
Click to continue reading…

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