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Domain registrars

Who registers the world’s domains, measured.

Who registers the world’s domains

The 23 registrars compared here account for 70.5% of every domain registered. GoDaddy is the largest at 13% of new registrations, around 1M a month. Share is moving: Spaceship has gained 2.9pp of the market against the same months last year, while Gname.com has given up 1.6pp.

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Registrars compared

Each sells to the public

7.9M

New domains a month

Across the whole market

13%

Go through GoDaddy

The largest single share

+2.9pp

Spaceship this year

Biggest gain in share

Most domains registered

  1. GoDaddy1M

    13% of the market

  2. Namecheap900k

    11.5% of the market

  3. Dynadot610k

    7.5% of the market

  4. Spaceship460k

    6% of the market

  5. Onamae.com410k

    5% of the market

  6. Hostinger380k

    5% of the market

  7. NameSilo290k

    3.5% of the market

  8. Cloudflare Registrar280k

    3.5% of the market

New registrations a month. Not domains held: the archive counts what is registered, not a registrar's book.

Gaining share

  1. Spaceship+2.9pp

    now 6%

  2. Cloudflare Registrar+2.2pp

    now 3.5%

  3. Dynadot+2.1pp

    now 7.5%

  4. Onamae.com+1.3pp

    now 5%

  5. Name.com+0.6pp

    now 1.5%

  6. Hostinger+0.5pp

    now 5%

Change in share of all new registrations against the same months last year.

Losing share

  1. Gname.com−1.6pp

    now 1.5%

  2. GoDaddy−1.3pp

    now 13%

  3. Alibaba Cloud−1.2pp

    now 0.8%

  4. Dominet−1pp

    now 0.5%

  5. West263 International−1pp

    now 0.2%

  6. NameSilo−0.6pp

    now 3.5%

The same measure, in the other direction.

Widest choice of extensions

  1. Dynadot595
  2. Porkbun525
  3. Name.com508
  4. Namecheap491
  5. GoDaddy472
  6. Spaceship469

How many extensions each one actually registered this year.

Most domains on one nameserver

  1. Cloudflare Registrar100%

    cloudflare.com

  2. Squarespace Domains96%

    googledomains.com

  3. Squarespace Domains LLC94%

    googledomains.com

  4. Eranet International91.5%

    taoa.com

  5. Hostinger89%

    dns-parking.com

  6. Alibaba Cloud89%

    hichina.com

Concentration, not loyalty: for some this is their own DNS, for others it is a parking host or a set inherited with an acquisition.

Most registered beyond a year

  1. Squarespace Domains LLC32.5%
  2. Wix27.5%
  3. OVHcloud21%
  4. GoDaddy19.5%
  5. Network Solutions19.5%
  6. Hostinger11%

Share of new registrations taken for two years or more.

Most names containing a digit

  1. Gname.com56.5%
  2. West263 International54%
  3. Dominet49.5%
  4. NameSilo46.5%
  5. West.cn46.5%
  6. Dynadot38.5%

A high share points at bulk registration rather than names someone chose, which says who a registrar's customers are.

Fewest names containing a digit

  1. Squarespace Domains LLC4%
  2. Wix4.5%
  3. IONOS5%
  4. Squarespace Domains5%
  5. Network Solutions5.5%
  6. Hostinger6%

The other end of the same measure.

Compare every registrar side by side
Registration volume and customer patterns for each registrar
RegistrarNew a monthShareChangeExtensionsAvg lengthHas a digitMulti-year
GoDaddyAbout 1M13%−1.3pp47211.522%19.5%
NamecheapAbout 900k11.5%no change49111.517.5%3%
DynadotAbout 610k7.5%+2.1pp5951038.5%0.5%
SpaceshipAbout 460k6%+2.9pp4691034%0.7%
Onamae.comAbout 410k5%+1.3pp2961030%0.1%
HostingerAbout 380k5%+0.5pp352126%11%
NameSiloAbout 290k3.5%−0.6pp405946.5%0.4%
Cloudflare RegistrarAbout 280k3.5%+2.2pp379116%9.5%
PorkbunAbout 150k2%+0.3pp525127%5%
Gname.comAbout 140k1.5%−1.6pp3858.556.5%0.9%
IONOSAbout 140k1.5%+0.3pp324135%3%
Squarespace DomainsAbout 130k1.5%+0.3pp36213.55%2%
Squarespace Domains LLCAbout 120k1.5%−0.2pp30144%32.5%
Name.comAbout 120k1.5%+0.6pp5081114.5%3%
WixAbout 72k0.9%−0.1pp3154.5%27.5%
Alibaba CloudAbout 63k0.8%−1.2pp138821.5%5%
Eranet InternationalAbout 57k0.7%no change1201238.5%0%
West.cnAbout 56k0.7%+0.1pp123746.5%0.5%
OVHcloudAbout 54k0.7%+0.3pp452126%21%
Network SolutionsAbout 45k0.6%−0.2pp348145.5%19.5%
DominetAbout 41k0.5%−1pp1788.549.5%0.2%
Xin NetAbout 26k0.3%+0.1pp991317%5.5%
West263 InternationalAbout 15k0.2%−1pp958.554%0.3%

Estimates rounded from our own WHOIS observations. Figures count domains registered, not domains held. This is a selection rather than the full field: wholesale platforms that sell only through resellers are not compared, which is why some extensions on this site show a leading registrar with no page here. Last measured September 2026.

Registrars we compare

GoDaddyIANA 146 · United StatesNamecheapIANA 1068 · United StatesDynadotIANA 472 · United StatesOnamae.comIANA 49 · JapanSpaceshipIANA 3862 · United StatesHostingerIANA 1636 · LithuaniaNameSiloIANA 1479 · United StatesGname.comIANA 1923 · SingaporeCloudflare RegistrarIANA 1910 · United StatesPorkbunIANA 1861 · United StatesIONOSIANA 83 · GermanySquarespace DomainsIANA 895 · United StatesSquarespace Domains LLCIANA 3827 · United StatesAlibaba CloudIANA 1599 · ChinaWixIANA 3817 · IsraelName.comIANA 625 · United StatesNetwork SolutionsIANA 2 · United StatesDominetIANA 3775 · Hong KongWest263 InternationalIANA 1915 · Hong KongOVHcloudIANA 433 · FranceWest.cnIANA 1556 · ChinaEranet InternationalIANA 1868 · Hong KongXin NetIANA 120 · China

Questions

Which domain registrar is the biggest?

GoDaddy registers the most, around 1M domains a month, or 13% of everything registered anywhere. Namecheap is second at 11.5%. These count domains registered rather than domains held: a registrar's total book is much larger than what it adds in any year.

Which registrar is growing fastest?

Spaceship has gained the most share, +2.9pp of the whole market against the same months last year, taking it to 6%. Gname.com has moved the other way, down 1.6 points to 1.5%.

What is an IANA registrar ID?

The permanent number ICANN assigns to each accredited registrar. It appears in every WHOIS record as the Registrar IANA ID, and it is the only stable way to identify one: the names vary between registries, so the same company turns up under three different spellings. Holding an ID means the company is contracted directly with ICANN and the registries. A reseller has none, because it sells through somebody else's.

How many domain registrars are there?

More than two thousand hold an ICANN accreditation, though most register very few domains. The comparison here covers the ones that both register at scale and sell directly to the public. Wholesale platforms are not included, because their volume is the pooled customers of thousands of resellers rather than their own, and a ranking meant to help you choose where to buy should not be led by companies that will not sell to you.

Which registrar offers the most domain extensions?

Dynadot, which registered domains across 595 different extensions this year. The range is wide: the narrowest in this comparison sells a handful. If you want something outside the common endings, the catalogue matters more than the headline price.

Do different registrars attract different customers?

Visibly. 56.5% of the names registered through Gname.com contain a digit, against 4% at Squarespace Domains LLC. A high digit share is the signature of names generated in bulk rather than chosen, so it separates registrars selling to businesses from those selling to volume registrants.

Which registrar's customers register for the longest?

Squarespace Domains LLC, where 32.5% of new registrations run beyond a single year. Almost everywhere else it is a small minority, so a multi-year share says something about both the customer and how hard the registrar pushes longer terms.

Do people keep their DNS at the registrar they bought from?

Often, but read the figure carefully. 100% of domains registered through Cloudflare Registrar sit on cloudflare.com. For some registrars that is their own DNS and does mean customers stayed; for others the most common nameserver is a parking host, which means the domains are unused rather than loyal.

Does it matter which registrar I use?

For the domain itself, no: the name works identically wherever it is registered, and you can transfer it after sixty days. What differs is renewal pricing, which extensions are available, whether WHOIS privacy costs extra, and how painful a transfer out is. The first-year price is the least useful number of those.