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What Name.com actually registers, measured.

Name.com by the numbers

Name.com registers about 120k domains a month, 1.5% of everything registered anywhere. Its share has grown by 0.6 percentage points against the same months last year. It sells across 508 extensions. It is strongest in .dev, where it handles 18% of everything registered, 11.6 times its share of the market overall. A name registered through Name.com averages 11 characters, 14.5% contain a digit, and 3% are registered for more than a year.

120k

Domains registered a month

Average across 2026

1.5%

Share of all new registrations

Every extension

+0.6pp

Share versus last year

Percentage points

508

Extensions sold

Registered at least one this year

New registrations by month
Show the monthly figures
Domains registered through Name.com by month, with share of the market
MonthRegisteredMarket share
January 2025About 62k0.9%
February 2025About 52k0.8%
March 2025About 66k0.9%
April 2025About 68k0.9%
May 2025About 73k1%
June 2025About 83k1.2%
July 2025About 70k1%
August 2025About 83k1%
September 2025About 86k1.1%
October 2025About 73k0.9%
November 2025About 80k0.9%
December 2025About 80k1.2%
January 2026About 75k1.3%
February 2026About 88k1.3%
March 2026About 100k1.4%
April 2026About 160k1.8%
May 2026About 150k1.7%
June 2026About 150k1.6%
July 2026About 130k1.5%

Where Name.com is strongest

  1. .dev11.6×

    18% of all new .dev

  2. .app6.9×

    10.5% of all new .app

  3. .org1.4×

    2% of all new .org

  4. .com1.3×

    2% of all new .com

  5. .xyz1.1×

    1.5% of all new .xyz

  6. .net1.1×

    1.5% of all new .net

Their share of an extension against their 1.5% share of the market overall. Above 1× means they are unusually strong there.

What Name.com sells most

.com50.5%
.app7.5%
.xyz5.5%
.org4%
.dev4%
.net2.5%

Share of everything Name.com registered this year.

Who registers there

The typical name registered through Name.com is 11 characters long.

Contains a digit14.5%
Contains a hyphen8%
Registered for more than a year3%

Where the domains point

name.com61%
cloudflare.com14%
salla.cloud7%
nsone.net5%
alidns.com1.5%

The nameservers these domains actually use, measured across 2025. About 1% sit on a parking or for-sale page.

About 230k domains registered through Name.com come up for renewal in May 2027, the busiest month ahead. Registrations are up 80% on the same months of 2025.

Estimates rounded from our own WHOIS observations. Figures count domains registered, not domains held. Last measured September 2026.

How many domains does Name.com register?

About 120k a month, which is 1.5% of every domain registered anywhere. That counts new registrations rather than the domains it holds, which is a much larger number and one no public data source measures directly.

Is Name.com growing?

Its share of new registrations has risen by 0.6 percentage points against the same months of last year, to 1.5%. Share is the useful measure here: the whole market grew, so a registrar can register more domains than last year and still be losing ground.

How many domain extensions does Name.com sell?

It registered domains across 508 extensions this year. 50.5% of what it sells is .com.

What is Name.com strongest at?

.dev. It handles 18% of everything registered under that extension, 11.6 times its 1.5% share of the market overall. That ratio is the useful one: it shows where a registrar is unusually strong rather than simply where it sells the most.

What kind of names do people register at Name.com?

The average is 11 characters, 14.5% contain a digit and 8% contain a hyphen. A high digit share indicates bulk registration rather than names someone sat down and chose, so this is the closest thing to a read on who a registrar's customers actually are.

Do people register with Name.com for more than one year?

3% do, against 97% who take a single year. Multi-year registrations are a minority almost everywhere, so the differences between registrars are large in relative terms.

Where do Name.com domains point their DNS?

61% use name.com. About 1% of them sit on a parking or for-sale page rather than a working site. Measured across 2025, the last period for which nameserver data is complete.

When do Name.com domains come up for renewal?

May 2027 is the busiest month ahead, with about 230k reaching their renewal date. Renewal peaks trail registration peaks by exactly a year, so whatever is not renewed then becomes available again.

Can anyone register a domain with Name.com?

Yes. Name.com is an ICANN-accredited registrar, IANA ID 625, and sells directly to the public with no membership or eligibility requirement.

Can I transfer a domain away from Name.com?

Yes. A domain can be transferred to another registrar sixty days after it is registered or last transferred, which is an ICANN rule rather than a registrar policy. You need the authorisation code from your current registrar and the domain must not be locked.