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What Spaceship actually registers, measured.

Spaceship by the numbers

Spaceship registers about 460k domains a month, 6% of everything registered anywhere. Its share has grown by 2.9 percentage points against the same months last year. It sells across 469 extensions. It is strongest in .garden, where it handles 81.5% of everything registered, 14.1 times its share of the market overall. A name registered through Spaceship averages 10 characters, 34% contain a digit, and 0.7% are registered for more than a year.

460k

Domains registered a month

Average across 2026

6%

Share of all new registrations

Every extension

+2.9pp

Share versus last year

Percentage points

469

Extensions sold

Registered at least one this year

New registrations by month
Show the monthly figures
Domains registered through Spaceship by month, with share of the market
MonthRegisteredMarket share
January 2025About 260k3.6%
February 2025About 160k2.6%
March 2025About 170k2.3%
April 2025About 190k2.5%
May 2025About 220k3%
June 2025About 210k3.1%
July 2025About 230k3.3%
August 2025About 430k5.4%
September 2025About 560k6.9%
October 2025About 560k6.9%
November 2025About 400k4.7%
December 2025About 290k4.3%
January 2026About 240k4.2%
February 2026About 310k4.5%
March 2026About 400k5.3%
April 2026About 530k6.2%
May 2026About 570k6.4%
June 2026About 600k6.5%
July 2026About 560k6.4%

Where Spaceship is strongest

  1. .garden14.1×

    81.5% of all new .garden

  2. .surf10.2×

    59% of all new .surf

  3. .beer8.8×

    51% of all new .beer

  4. .buzz8.3×

    47.5% of all new .buzz

  5. .casino7.9×

    45.5% of all new .casino

  6. .cfd4.8×

    28% of all new .cfd

Their share of an extension against their 6% share of the market overall. Above 1× means they are unusually strong there.

What Spaceship sells most

.com21.5%
.shop11%
.top11%
.xyz5.5%
.garden4.5%
.cfd3%

Share of everything Spaceship registered this year.

Who registers there

The typical name registered through Spaceship is 10 characters long.

Contains a digit34%
Contains a hyphen8%
Registered for more than a year0.7%

Where the domains point

spaceship.net44.5%
cloudflare.com33%
alidns.com4.5%
afternic.com2%
namecheaphosting.com1.5%

The nameservers these domains actually use, measured across 2025. About 5.5% sit on a parking or for-sale page.

About 740k domains registered through Spaceship come up for renewal in May 2027, the busiest month ahead. Registrations are up 125% on the same months of 2025.

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

The company

IANA ID
3862
Accreditation
ICANN accredited
Based in
United States
Part of
Namecheap
Register at Spaceship

How many domains does Spaceship register?

About 460k a month, which is 6% 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 Spaceship growing?

Its share of new registrations has risen by 2.9 percentage points against the same months of last year, to 6%. 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 Spaceship sell?

It registered domains across 469 extensions this year. 21.5% of what it sells is .com.

What is Spaceship strongest at?

.garden. It handles 81.5% of everything registered under that extension, 14.1 times its 6% 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 Spaceship?

The average is 10 characters, 34% 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 Spaceship for more than one year?

0.7% do, against 99.5% 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 Spaceship domains point their DNS?

44.5% use spaceship.net. About 5.5% 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 Spaceship domains come up for renewal?

May 2027 is the busiest month ahead, with about 740k 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 Spaceship?

Yes. Spaceship is an ICANN-accredited registrar, IANA ID 3862, and sells directly to the public with no membership or eligibility requirement.

Can I transfer a domain away from Spaceship?

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.