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It doesn't. But NameCheap is a drop in the bucket from an industry perspective. Take a look http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/ http://
by ohashi 13y ago
It doesn't. But NameCheap is a drop in the bucket from an industry perspective. Take a look http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/ http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/
They have 32% of the market. WildWest is also GoDaddy (another 3% market). So They have 35% of the market. The next biggest (Enom) has 8% and really that's a split between them and NameCheap (NC had 3M in 2012).
GoDaddy is much bigger than anyone else on the consumer side. A lot of those competitors are focused on domain holders/resellers (Tucows, Enom, ResellerClub, Moniker).
Now they are going after the other side of the domain business. And they just secured the missing channel which comes with technology and distribution.
It won't affect consumers that much (my prediction), but it just positioned GoDaddy to dominate all the key aspects of the domain market.
- duskwuff 13y agoI'm pretty sure that site's numbers are wrong. Try digging into the details on any registrar - the "gain/loss report" for GoDaddy, for example, says that they're registering and transferring in exactly -2560 domains every single week. (This is separate from the transfers out and deletions, so it should NEVER be negative.) Other registrars have similarly "quirky" numbers.
- ohashi 13y agoHere is a different source, very different numbers, but GoDaddy is just many times bigger than anyone else. They are also growing (in absolute terms) faster than anyone else. http://www.registrarowl.com/report_registrar_total_domains.php http://www.registrarowl.com/report_registrar_total_domains.p...
- hncommenter13 13y agoCan you potentially point me to a reliable source for this type of number (or tell me how to calculate it myself, assuming I can get the zone file from Verisign)? I had similar issues with the data, and I tried emailing these guys to find out more about their methodology. Didn't get a response. Are they crawling DNS for every domain that has changed info (or is new, or drops) from the prior zone file? How would one recreate this data, hypothetically? EDIT: I'm aware of the ICANN delayed data (as the site below uses), but I am hoping for a more up-to-date source.