atest data shows a surge in .com registrations.
ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers May 2025.
Here are some takeaways from this month’s data:
- May was a banner month for .com registrations. Registrars have to have regged at least 100k new names to make it into the top 10 monthly. I don’t think that’s ever happened before, at least as long as I’ve been analyzing the data.
- Gname has overtaken Turncommerce on the total DUMs list (despite losing names YoY) as the latter continues to shed names, most of which are likely from its own portfolio.
- Namecheap had a huge month, registering over 100k more domains than it did in May a year ago. 55k of the new names were at Spaceship.
- Wix might jump into the top 10 overall soon. It had just below 3 million .coms, just slightly below Team Internet Group.
Below is a chart showing the performance of the largest registrars in terms of new registrations in May 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) 659,543 (715,382 in May 2024)
2. Namecheap Inc. 449,628 (335,332)
3. Gname 191,977 (86,529)
4. Squarespace 185,080 (160,973)
5. Hostinger 180,957 (74,139)
6. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) 154,388 (175,688)
7. Dynadot 110,503 (88,731)
8. IONOS 106,965 (66,029)
9. Alibaba 102,236 (64,825)
10. GMO 100,739 (43,538)
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars by total .com registrations under management as of the end of May.
1. GoDaddy 52,921,838 (54,893,954 in May 2024)
2. Namecheap 11,466,070 (9,997,441)
3. Newfold Digital 10,589,184 (11,968,805)
4. Tucows 10,572,307 (10,799,419)
5. Squarespace 8,471,635 (8,108,885)
6. IONOS 5,762,635 (5,818,733)
7. Gname 4,423,671 (4,645,341)
8. TurnCommerce 4,251,852 (5,936,809)
9. Alibaba 3,935,730 (4,079,329)
10. Team Internet Group 3,037,872 (3,345,741)
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/
