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