registrar news

Namesilo revenue climbs to $55M, now has 5.7 million domains

Revenue continues its upward march at domain registrar NameSilo. Domain name registrar NameSilo (CSE: URL) (PINKSHEETS: URLOF) reported its 2024…

1 year ago

Newfold is killing the Web.com brand, accounts will migrate to Network Solutions

A big domain company is merging two of its brands. Domain name and hosting rollup Newfold Digital is killing the…

1 year ago

GoDaddy falls below key number in latest .com rankings

GoDaddy had fewer than 600,000 new .com registrations in December. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN)…

1 year ago

Zoom blames registrar and .us registry for downtime

“Communication error” between registrar and registry results in major outage. Zoom has seemingly blamed GoDaddy Registry, which manages the .us…

1 year ago

OpusDNS builds team and platform as it eyes 2025 launch

Company continues to hire as it prepares for launch this year. A new wholesale/reseller registrar is making a big splash…

1 year ago

Why do registrars sell .com domains for less than the wholesale price?

Registrars sell below the wholesale cost to win customers and to get registry rebates. $5.00. $5.75. $6.99. These are prices…

1 year ago

Top 25 domain name registrars

An expanded list of the top domain name registrars, ranked by .com domains under management. Each month, I analyze the…

1 year ago

The top 10 .com registrars aren’t growing, but their challengers are

Six of the 11th-20th largest .com registrars grew their DUMs year over year. Earlier this week, I provided the latest…

1 year ago

Only one of the top 10 .com domain registrars is growing

Just one of the registrar families has grown its base of .com domains over the 12-month period ending in November.…

1 year ago

GMO launches new registrar Taku

New team launches domain registrar that will offer marketplace and monetization. I’ve been a bit bewildered by .shop suddenly hiring…

1 year ago