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Namecheap gets boost from bulk transfer from Tucows.
ICANN has published the latest official .com data from January.
January is typically an up month for domain name registrations as the year kicks off, and you’ll see that in the data.
Namecheap lept up the top registrar chart to #6 thanks to a massive bulk transfer of domains from Tucows.
In January, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations: Click here to continue reading…
Some notable items from Tucows’ 10-k.
Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) filed its annual report yesterday. Here are some things I found interesting:
1. The company now has 558 full-time employees. With $329 million in revenue, that’s about $600k of revenue per employee.
2. Tucows had 22.3M domains under management (DUM) on its own accreditations at the end of 2017 and a further 5.4 million on its platform managed under resellers’ accreditations. That’s a total of 27.7 million DUM.
3. In January, the Company completed a bulk transfer of 2.65 million names to former reseller Namecheap following a court order. As a result of the bulk transfer, the Company will recognize in the first quarter of 2018 $14.6 million of revenue and $14.5 million of cost of goods sold related to previously deferred revenue and deferred prepaid registry fees.
That narrow spread shows how little margin it received on Namecheap domains. However, Tucows did receive expiry and PPC revenue from these domains as well.
These are the biggest registrars for .com domain names.
ICANN has published Verisign’s most recent official breakdown of domain transactions by registrar. The data are from November.
Starting with this month’s .com registrar post, I’m going to show the registrar’s numbers from the previous month as well if they were on the chart during the previous month.
There’s some seasonality in domain names, but you might also observe some interesting fluctuations.
In November, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations:
1. GoDaddy.com* 897,003 (942,007 in October)
2. Tucows** 187,418 (197,433)
3. Endurance+ 169,207 (170,597)
4. HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. 163,557 (113,515)
5. NameCheap Inc. 152,154 (132,524)
6. Web.com++ 96,305 (100,930)
7. Xin Net Technology Corporation 83,992 (65,746)
8. Google Inc. 77,297 (78,340)
9. 1&1 Internet 54,521 (55,423)
10. GMO Internet, Inc. dba Onamae.com 51,056 (52,154)
Here’s the current leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of November 2017:
1. GoDaddy* 46,542,942 (46,325,700 in October)
2. Tucows** 15,720,758 (15,721,852)
3. Endurance+ 8,076,223 (8,138,111)
4. Web.com++ 6,666,497 (6,647,865)
5. HiChina 5,290,049 (5,198,100)
6. 1&1 3,804,080 (3,803,746)
7. GMO 2,200,618 (2,197,932)
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 1,589,452 (1,530,863)
9. Namecheap 1,350,681
9. OVH 1,342,327 (1,333,602)
Many domain companies have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below and let me know if I’ve missed any large registrars.
* Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains
** Includes Tucows and Enom
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but I believe these are the biggest
++ Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
These are the biggest registrars for .com domain names.
ICANN has released Verisign’s most recent official breakdown of domain transactions by registrar. The data are from October.
In October, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations:
1. GoDaddy.com 942,007*
2. Tucows 197,433**
3. Endurance 170,597+
4. NameCheap Inc. 132,524
5. HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. 113,515
6. Web.com 100,930++
7. Google Inc. 78,340
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 65,746
9. 1&1 Internet SE 55,423
10. GMO Internet, Inc. dba Onamae.com 52,154
Here’s the current leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of October 2017:
1. GoDaddy 46,325,700*
2. Tucows 15,721,852**
3. Endurance 8,138,111+
4. Web.com 6,647,865++
5. HiChina 5,198,100
6. 1&1 3,803,746
7. GMO 2,197,932
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 1,530,863
9. OVH 1,333,602
10. Ename 1,314,204
Once Namecheap gets its .com names from Tucows, it will show up on this list.
Many domain companies have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below and let me know if I’ve missed any large registrars.
* Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains
** Includes Tucows and Enom
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but I believe these are the biggest
++ Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
There was movement on the top .com registrars rankings in the most recent ICANN report.
ICANN has published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for September 2017.
Here are the top registrars in terms of new .com registrations for September. Namecheap lept to #3 on the chart. It registered its typical number of .com domains but PublicDomainRegistry’s registrations plummeted, pushing Namecheap up the list.
1. GoDaddy* 886,189
2. Tucows** 184,234
3. Namecheap 125,162
4. HiChina 120,405
5. Bizcn.com 109,715
When it comes to net inbound transfers (transfer gains minus transfer losses) for registrars open to the public, here are the top five gainers. This list excludes registrars that aren’t open to the public.
1. HiChina +126,111 (compared to +34,959 in August)
2. GoDaddy +11,482
3. MAFF Inc (XZ.com) +8,277
4. Epik +7,746
5. NameSilo +6,450
On the flip side, these five registrars saw the biggest net outflow of .com domain names due to transfers:
1. Ename -49,243 (I assume this accounts for some of HiChina’s inbound transfers)
2. EIMS.cn -17,497
3. Domain.com -13,512
4. DNS.com.cn -12,676
5. PublicDomainRegistry -8,418
*Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains **Includes Tucows and Enom