The best registrar poll for 2019 on Namepros concluded today with NameSilo coming in first place. GoDaddy was second and Dynadot third.
This is a poll ran roughly every 18 months, with 915 votes this time.
The last two competitions GoDaddy won, taking 52% of the vote 3 years ago, and then beating NameSilo 253 votes vs 191 or 29.8% vs 22.5% roughly 18 months ago.
For some registrars it’s a time to think about the service they are offering. Registrars not seen by many to be the best outdid companies usually thought to be of a better service.
For instance Fabulous and Enom combined has less votes than Network Solutions. 1&1 actually had more votes than Fabulous, Enom, Hexonet and Internet BS.
NameSilo, GoDaddy and Dynadot took 63.9% of the vote.
Here are the recent registration counts courtesy of DomainNameStat.com. Top 50 registrars by registrations.
GoDaddy.com, LLC67,073,34819.35%
NameCheap, Inc.11,299,6033.26%
Tucows Domains Inc.11,286,9293.26%
HiChina Zhicheng Technology Limited7,998,6312.31%
Network Solutions, LLC7,567,9382.18%
eNom, LLC7,040,1762.03%
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd.6,181,9201.78%
PDR Ltd.5,772,4511.67%
GMO Internet, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com5,573,6461.61%
Xin Net Technology Corporation4,421,0591.28%
OVH sas4,278,5401.23%
Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC4,041,0831.17%
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.3,551,7061.02%
Google LLC3,390,4690.98%
1&1 Internet SE3,279,8100.95%
123-Reg Limited3,220,9490.93%
NameSilo, LLC2,958,3670.85%
Wild West Domains, LLC2,661,1860.77%
FastDomain Inc.2,493,8050.72%
Gandi SAS2,335,2250.67%
Key-Systems GmbH2,141,9000.62%
Name.com, Inc.2,089,9710.60%
Register.com, Inc.2,087,6790.60%
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER2,003,8440.58%
Domain.com, LLC1,958,6540.57%
Uniregistrar Corp1,754,1150.51%
Ascio Technologies1,638,6800.47%
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.1,592,0980.46%
Dynadot, LLC1,583,5480.46%
Mesh Digital Limited1,351,5950.39%
ALIBABA.COM SINGAPORE E-COMMERCE PRIVATE LIMITED1,319,7780.38%
Cronon AG1,274,9930.37%
eName Technology Co., Ltd.1,247,6720.36%
Go Canada Domains, LLC1,172,0080.34%
1API GmbH1,156,1830.33%
PSI-USA, Inc. dba Domain Robot1,105,2380.32%
MarkMonitor Inc.1,093,8380.32%
REGISTER.IT SPA1,001,0060.29%
Bizcn.com, Inc.990,2780.29%
Automattic Inc.941,3560.27%
22net, Inc.910,3650.26%
West263 International Limited843,8870.24%
Gabia, Inc.793,3570.23%
united-domains AG791,8250.23%
OnlineNIC, Inc.772,3230.22%
Registrar R01 LLC754,6990.22%
Alpnames Limited746,7520.22%
Crazy Domains FZ-LLC746,4770.22%