Domain registrar shakeup: latest numbers show major shifts

A look at the top 10 .com registrars for both new monthly registrations and total domains under management.

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ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers July 2025.

Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:

    • If you’re curious how many domains Unstoppable Domains is registering with its low prices, it picked up just over 20,000 new .coms in July.
    • Is TurnCommerce returning to buy mode? Its registrars accounted for 74,165 .com registrations in July. It had been averaging about 25k-30k per month recently. Its total DUMs slipped slightly from last month and are still down 1.6 million YoY.
    • Wix (NASDAQ: WIX) topped 3 million .com domains under management, falling just shy of the top 10.
    • I don’t remember seeing Cloudflare anywhere near the top registrars for a month, but it registered 73,157 domains in July, which is a strong showing.

Below is a chart showing the performance of the largest registrars in terms of new registrations in July 2025, which are the latest available numbers. Note that the rankings include multiple registrar accreditations within families of registrars. You can see the list of registrars at the end of this post.

1. GoDaddy.com (NYSE: GDDY) 669,461 (658,152 in July 2024)
2. Namecheap Inc. 454,807 (342,411)
3. Squarespace 190,900 (166,443)
4. Hostinger 188,096 (145,644)
5. Dynadot 176,282 (91,178)
6. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 150,123 (197,287)
7. Gname 149,991 (89,355)
8. Team Internet Group 121,572
9. Name SRS AB 100,129 (1,696)
10. Alibaba 96,783 (56,905)

Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of July.

1. GoDaddy 52,702,774 (54,356,015 in July 2024)
2. Namecheap 11,776,515 (10,169,696)
3. Newfold Digital 10,641,596 (11,734,201)
4. Tucows 10,468,611 (10,735,105)
5. Squarespace 8,576,109 (8,092,688)
6. IONOS 5,774,936 (5,803,617)
7. Gname 4,616,811 (4,505,800)
8. TurnCommerce 4,118,683 (5,815,523)
9. Alibaba 4,031,059 (3,955,047)
10. Team Internet Group 3,147,766 (3,185,745)

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

  • GoDaddy includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains, Uniregistry, GoDaddy Corporate Domains, MeshDigital, the 5 “Go Country” registrars, and 123 Reg
  • Namecheap includes Namecheap and Spaceship
  • Tucows includes Tucows, Enom, Ascio and EPAG
  • Newfold Digital includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain, Bigrock, Network Solutions, Register.com, MarkMonitor, SnapNames registrars, and Crazy Domains/Dreamscape. There are other Newfold registrars, but these are the biggest.
  • TurnCommerce includes NameBright and DropCatch registrars
  • IONOS includes 1&1, InterNetX, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys, and world4you
  • Team Internet Group includes Key-Systems, 1API, Internet.bs, TLD Registrar Solutions, RegistryGate, Moniker, Instra
Source: https://domainnamewire.com/