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Top .com domain name registrars (ranked)

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These are the fastest growing and biggest domain name registrars for .com domains.

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ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers August 2021.

There was a lot of movement in the chart for new registrations, including NameSilo popping up with a stronger-than-normal month.

Here’s how registrars did in terms of new .com registrations in August:

1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 821,826 (800,025 in July)
2. Namecheap Inc. 271,419 (281,678)
3. Newfold Digital+ 170,808 (169,899)
4. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 159,908 (150,950)
5. Alibaba (HiChina) 147,692 (251,367)
6. NameSilo 141,711 (96,498)
7. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 140,535 (141,155)
8. Dynadot 135,231 (146,099)
9. GMO 127,510
10. Registrar.eu 117,518

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations under management as of the end of August.

1. GoDaddy* 56,282,077 (56,392,325 in July)
2. Newfold Digital+ 14,191,351 (14,323,837)
3. Tucows** 12,572,011 (12,674,762)
4. Namecheap 8,000,384 (7,931,446)
5. Alibaba 6,396,336 (6,473,878)
6. IONOS^ 5,899,235 (5,911,071)
7. TurnCommerce++ 5,311,937 (5,076,114)
8. Google 4,743,534 (4,666,584)
9. CentralNic^^ 3,599,952 (3,598,295)
10. NameSilo 2,470,304 (2,378,593)

Many domain companies have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below.

* Includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, SnapNames registrars, and Crazy Domains/Dreamscape. There are other Newfold registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
^ Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys and world4you
^^ Includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra

NameSilo reports record revenue and nixes acquisition

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Registrar keeps growing.

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NameSilo (CNSX:URL.CN) (OTC:URLOF) has reported its earnings for the first half of the year, and announced that a proposed acquisition of NameSilo is off the table.

On the earnings front, the company had record revenues of $8.4 million in Q2 2021, compared to $7.6 million in the same quarter last year, an increase of about 11%.

Domain registrations account for the bulk of the company’s revenue. 2.2% of its revenue was from its domain marketplace and 1.8% was from hosting and email services.

Earnings are difficult to compare because the registrar is part of a holding company that owns shares in many other companies.

Separately, the company announced that a prospective sale of its registrar is not going through. In December, the company announced that it entered into a letter of intent with WGH Holding B.V. to sell the registrar. That entity was working to combine the business with a hosting and domain business in Africa. (In April 2021, the African business contacted me to say that, while it was in discussions with WGH about an acquisition, the deal was not consummated.)

“We believe that the value of Namesilo has grown significantly since the discussions with the prospective buyer began and feel that there is more value to be unlocked over the near to medium term for shareholders,” Paul Andreola, CEO of NameSilo Technologies, said in a release.

NameSilo now has over 4 million domains under management.

Two registrars hit major DUMs milestones

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Dynadot and NameSilo celebrate milestones.

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Two domain name registrars hit major milestones for domains under management (DUMs) this month.

Dynadot announced last week that customers now have over 3 million domains registered at the registrar. The company hit the two million milestone in September 2019 and the one million number about a year before that, so the company is growing very quickly.

NameSilo (CSE:URL) also hit a milestone recently, announcing yesterday that it now has over four million domains under management. This comes less than two years after it hit three million domains.

Domains under management is a somewhat controversial metric for domain registrars and registries because some chase quantity over quality. NameSilo is unique in that it keeps a running tally of its domains on a dashboard, including a breakdown by top level domain. The dashboard shows that over half of the company’s domains are .com, which is a good sign (compared to being mostly inexpensive top level domains bought in bulk).

NameSilo reports 2020 results

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Revenue grew by over 14% in 2020.

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NameSilo Technologies Corp. (CSE:URL), the parent company of domain name registrar NameSilo, reported its earnings for 2020 this week.

The company grossed $31.1 million for the year, up from $27.2 million in 2019. The company credits an increase in domains under management and new ancillary services for the growth. NameSilo now has over 3.9 million domains under management and over half of those are .com domains.

NameSilo says that over 65% of the revenue was generated by customers who were customers in the prior fiscal year.

The company swung from a $4.0 million loss to a $6.5 million profit from 2019 to 2020, but that change has little to do with the core registrar business; the holding company’s investments in other companies increased in value by over $9 million.

NameSilo announced last year that it was in negotiations to be acquired, and says those discussions are still ongoing.

NameSilo update: record revenue, acquisition still in the works

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Company tops $3 million revenue in March.

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Domain name registration company NameSilo (CSE:URL) issued an update on its operations today.

In the release, the company said that monthly revenue exceeded USD $3 million in March for the first time ever. It also paid down nearly $1 million (Canadian) of debt, bringing its outstanding debt to under CAN $5 million.

The company now has 3.82 million domain names under management.

In December, the company announced that it entered into a non-binding letter of intent to sell its assets to WGH Holdings BV for USD $30 million. The idea is to combined NameSilo into a domain registration business in Africa. The release states, “Both parties continue to work towards meeting the conditions to enter into a definitive agreement. More details will be announced when available.”

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