Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game

Posted on March 19, 2014

Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrations

German based registrar, InterNetX said they were able to secure 81% of all preregistrations for its clients, “making it the #1 registrar for .BERLIN domains in the B2B sector”.

Godaddy.com which had just under 40% of the new gTLD market as a domain name registrar share is now sitting right below 35%.

Many German based registrars benefited from the success of .Berlin which is responsible for about 11% of all new gTLD registraions just short of 32,000 registration out of 294,000 new gTLD registrations.

As you can see United-Domains 1and1, Cronon, Key-Systems market share increased from previous numbers and 3 German registrars are in the top 5 of all registrars worldwide when it comes to new gTLD’s

1and1.com did over 10,000 registration for .Berlin

United-Domains AG did 8,752 domain registrations.

Here are the top 10 domain registrars for .Berlin:

1. 1&1 Internet AG 10,130 31.70%
2. united-domains AG 8,752 27.39%
3. PSI-USA, Inc. dba Domain Robot 6,777 21.21%
4. Cronon AG 2,823 8.83%
5. Key-Systems, LLC 807 2.53%
6. 1API GmbH 688 2.15%
7. Vautron Rechenzentrum AG 275 0.86%
8. InterNetworX Ltd. & Co. KG 250 0.78%
9. EPAG Domainservices GmbH 250 0.78%
10. Variomedia AG dba puredomain.com 173 0.54%

Here is the current market share of domain name registrars for the all new gTLD according to ntldstats.com

egistrar Domains % Share
1. Godaddy LLC 100,640 34.22%
2. Enom, Inc. 29,423 10.01%
3. united-domains AG 26,810 9.12%
4. 1&1 Internet AG 25,006 8.50%
5. Cronon AG 10,774 3.66%
6. PSI-USA, Inc. dba Domain Robot 9,813 3.34%
7. Name.com, Inc. 9,782 3.33%
8. Mesh Digital Limited 8,979 3.05%
9. Tucows Domains Inc. 8,415 2.86%
10. 101Domain Inc 6,905 2.35%
11. Key-Systems, LLC 6,699 2.28%
12. Network Solutions, LLC 5,896 2.00%
13. Gandi SAS 3,790 1.29%
14. 1API GmbH 3,114 1.06%
15. PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 3,110 1.06%
16. Interlink Co., Ltd. 2,352 0.80%
17. MarkMonitor Inc. 2,236 0.76%
18. Ascio Technologies, Inc. – Denmark 1,841 0.63%
19. CSC Corporate Domains Inc 1,824 0.62%
20. Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 1,760 0.60%

3 thoughts on “Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game”

  1. It is comparing apples and oranges. The .BERLIN new gTLD is really a quasi ccTLD rather than a new gTLD. Godaddy has a leading share of the other new gTLDs but most ccTLDs are dominated by their local registrars. (The top ten in some ccTLDs can have 70% or so of registrations.)

  2. Paradoxically, I see this as Bad news for most of the New gTLDs (out or not) with the exception of the rest of the upcoming GEOs…
    As Investors in a wait and see mode while signal the “New Geo domains” as the place to be/invest.

    Call it the lemming effect. 🙂

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