According to WebHosting.info Moniker.com has just been passed by Register.com and now is the 10th largest registrar in the world.
According to the stats Register.com now has 40,000 more domains under management than Moniker.com
Webhosting.info stats do not include all ccTLD’s but is a good measure for registrars that are gaining or losing registrations.
The 11th largest registrar is Key-Systems which is about 400,000 domains behind Moniker.com
Earlier this year Moniker.com was the 7th largest registrar and seems to be hit particularly hard by declining PPC revenue as they have a large domainer clientele
It is no longer MonteKer – that is the real reason
Is the info given on webhosting.info correct?
Doesn’t GoDaddy claim 50mm registrations?
WHi only shows 39mm for GoDaddy…
Samit
As I said webhosting.info does not count a lot of ccTLD’s so its not 100% on the money but the extension it doesn’t count it doesn’t count for any registrar.
We only use Dynadot – great prices, great service.
k-s probably has many cctld registrations as they offer service for the majority of cctlds.
i’m a little surprised by whi’s “patent pending”. these stats are easy to compile, they come from publicly available info and we’ve been compiling them for long before the whi site popped up. do they plan to sue people? how will they discover infringment? or is this just to give off an impression: we have a patent so we’re more valuable or something, or i have x no. of patents in my name, so i’m an “inventor”? c’mon. your lawyer is taking you for a ride.
patents are not cheap. and we all know software patents that are not worth their cost and never practiced are used abusively to make threats.
respect to whi. they’re intelligent and they can do as they please. just saying.
@Samit
50M is across all registrars, GoDaddy.com, WildWestDomains.com….it’s the count for the Group. Like MHB said, ccTLDs aren’t counted at WHI, only gTLDs. Bear in mind, GD is a backer and the largest registrar for .ME as well.
Wow and Register.com is one of the crappiest registrars out there.
May not be much longer before Oversee looks to dump Moniker.
Question is, get out now or wait till then?
SF
Already being shopped around
Moniker’s tops. It’s disturbing to hear it is being shopped around. If it’s sold, Moniker registrants are supposed to receive 15-day notice to have a chance to opt out of moving to new Registrar. Believe me, I’m moving every domain I can to DomainIt, if Moniker gets sold. Better figure out my exit strategy.
I bought my very first domain at GoDaddy, big mistake for a newbie. Now I use Namecheap and have never had a problem. I just bought a new .com yesterday for $1.99 through NC with a Facebook coupon code. Always good deals going. I’ve never used Moniker but interesting article either way.
register.com holds hundreds of thousands in expired junk domains they have no idea what to do with. good thing web.com took them over because their previous management of larry kutscher was terrible and lacked ethics.
I think that maybe Key-Systems is Moniker. I just registered a .ws domain and now when I do a whois on it (from DomainTools or from Moniker’s WhoIs” it says
Registrant Name: Use registrar whois listed below
Registrant Email: Use registrar whois listed below
Administrative Contact Email: Use registrar whois listed below
Administrative Contact Telephone: Use registrar whois listed below
Registrar Name: Key-Systems GmbH
Registrar Email:
Registrar Telephone: +49 / 6332 791850
Registrar Whois: whois.rrpproxy.net
Domain Created: 2012-01-25
Domain Last Updated: 2012-01-25
Domain Currently Expires: 2013-01-25
And of course when I follow the instrucions and try to use the whois server listed below that domain doesn’t reslove.
I probably should have mentioned to be clear that the .ws domain I registered, I registered it with Moniker
JP
Its possible that Moniker uses Key Systems for some extensions like .WS?
You register any .com’s over there recently?
@MHB
Yea .com still same Whois. Reg’d a few yesterday and they were normal. Just .ws is different. was my first .ws so I never came across this before. Kinda random reg, domain had been taken since 2004 and apparently just expired. Random that I found it. I don’t think .ws works it’s way through the normal drop circuit.