According To Hosterstats 33% of All .Co Domains Are Hosted On Godaddy Servers: Here Are The Top 50 Servers

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According to HosterStats.com, Godaddy.com is hosting 33% of all tracked .Co registrations.

According to the service they are tracking just 616K domains even though there are over 1M .Co registrations, so it doesn’t claim account for every .co registration, still none the less its an interesting look at the extension.

In second place is Sedoparking which hosts just over 5% of the tracked .Co domain registrations:

“”The following are the top 50 Hosters in .co ccTLD for 01 July 2011. The domain statistics are based on the nameservers of the web hoster’s domain name. The Gain figure is the numbers of new domain names transferred in to that hoster’s nameservers since the first day of the prior month. The Loss figure is the number of domain names transferred out to other hoster’s nameservers in the same period. The Sec. Gain and Sec. Loss cover secondary DNS activity. The Static figure is the number of domains unchanged on that hoster’s nameservers since last month. The .co figures are based on detected .co domain names and as of July 2011 the detected and tracked number of .co domain names was 616,227. These figures do not cover the entire .co ccTLD zone.””

 

Global Top 50 .co Domain Hosters – 01 July 2011

Hoster .co New Deleted Gain Loss Sec. Gain Sec. Loss Static Change %
domaincontrol.com 201,472 8,443 771 1,715 8,207 2 4 191,314 1,178 32.69
sedoparking.com 32,083 861 14 1,323 2,052 0 0 29,899 118 5.21
worldnic.com 28,346 1,050 92 32 214 0 0 27,264 776 4.60
secureserver.net 23,992 52 11 0 862 0 0 23,940 -821 3.89
cashparking.com 21,066 431 1 845 442 0 0 19,790 833 3.42
register.com 11,387 210 5 6 82 0 0 11,171 129 1.85
1and1.com 10,001 380 37 643 62 0 1 8,978 923 1.62
123-reg.co.uk 9,968 1,012 0 15 121 0 0 8,941 906 1.62
livedns.co.uk 7,485 298 2 22 35 0 0 7,165 283 1.21
registrar-servers.com 7,469 408 0 752 185 0 0 6,309 975 1.21
1und1.de 6,530 201 30 2 30 0 0 6,327 143 1.06
1and1.co.uk 6,397 452 21 22 29 0 0 5,923 424 1.04
hostgator.com 6,135 267 9 204 217 0 0 5,664 245 1.00
name-services.com 5,488 343 7 35 102 0 0 5,110 269 0.89
domainmonster.com 5,360 78 1 22 70 0 0 5,260 29 0.87
fastpark.net 5,135 25 8 3,193 204 0 0 1,917 3,006 0.83
home.pl 4,798 237 1 8 23 0 0 4,553 221 0.78
directnic.com 3,989 132 1 163 24 0 0 3,694 270 0.65
orderbox-dns.com 3,957 94 11 49 61 0 3 3,814 68 0.64
dsredirection.com 3,825 30 2 1,745 61 0 0 2,050 1,712 0.62
uk2.net 3,812 276 0 10 15 0 0 3,526 271 0.62
udagdns.net 3,672 31 12 2 6 0 0 3,639 15 0.60
udagdns.de 3,672 31 12 2 6 0 0 3,639 15 0.60
phase8.net 3,591 183 0 0 8 0 0 3,408 175 0.58
nameresolve.com 3,422 65 0 6 48 0 0 3,351 23 0.56
softlayer.com 3,305 11 0 8 3 4 0 3,286 20 0.54
lcn.com 3,237 50 6 4 15 0 0 3,183 33 0.53
websitewelcome.com 3,205 137 0 92 112 0 0 2,976 117 0.52
mainnameserver.com 3,181 114 0 37 6 0 0 3,030 145 0.52
1and1.fr 2,876 125 17 2 5 0 0 2,749 105 0.47
whypark.com 2,857 69 0 63 92 0 0 2,725 40 0.46
googleghs.com 2,814 74 2 420 200 2 1 2,320 293 0.46
bodis.com 2,806 66 6 1,128 56 0 0 1,612 1,132 0.46
1and1.es 2,761 61 72 2 14 0 0 2,698 -23 0.45
melbourneit.com.au 2,555 99 41 2 26 0 0 2,454 34 0.41
heartinternet.co.uk 2,353 75 0 7 9 0 0 2,271 73 0.38
mydomain.com 2,135 112 0 9 31 0 0 2,014 90 0.35
bluehost.com 2,129 91 43 64 16 2 0 1,974 98 0.35
dreamhost.com 2,118 96 0 55 34 0 0 1,967 117 0.34
parked.com 2,008 27 2 85 1,645 0 0 1,896 -1,535 0.33
name.com 1,890 82 3 16 23 1 1 1,792 72 0.31
pipedns.com 1,597 63 1 41 53 0 0 1,493 50 0.26
iwsdns.com 1,500 279 0 3 28 0 0 1,218 254 0.24
hover.com 1,475 40 0 10 3 0 0 1,425 47 0.24
dnslink.com 1,393 5 0 346 26 0 0 1,042 325 0.23
mediatemple.net 1,374 52 0 47 13 0 0 1,275 86 0.22
kolmic.com 1,310 7 0 1,264 2 0 0 39 1,269 0.21
net4india.com 1,299 67 1 17 4 0 0 1,215 79 0.21
domeny.com 1,299 17 0 0 11 0 0 1,282 6 0.21
speedydns.net 1,289 22 0 6 15 0 0 1,261 13 0.21

Filed Under: .CO

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  2. BrianWick says

    Amazing that eNom has less than 1% – dont remember what Moniker’s servers are.
    In a credibility manner – it makes me feel better about keeping most of my stuff at eNom.

  4. Don says

    I see 1.75 mil by end of year. If the big companies keep buying .co everyone else will follow.

  5. BullS says

    “I see 1.75 mil by end of year. If the big companies keep buying .co everyone else will follow.”

    Not me….I don’t like to join the dot co sucker club

  6. John McCormac says

    Well .co has to go through its Landrush Anniversary drop cycle and many new TLDs have about a 72% renewal rate. I’m not sure how things will work out for .co ccTLD as there was a lot of speculative activity and the co/com typo aspect drove a lot of the speculation. The figures are effectively a sample of .co rather than the entire zone but Godaddy’s flagship registrar position is exactly as one would expect given the market position of Godaddy in most of the gTLDs (it has over 20% in each of the main TLDs on domaincontrol.com alone).

    I’m not sure if .co ccTLD will reach 2 million domain this year. What often happens with a Landrush Anniversary is that some of the dropped domains can be reregistered and then dropped again in subsequent years. Depending on the rate of new registrations, it can take six to eight months for the dropped domains figure to be replaced by new registrations (assuming the number of new registrations continues to be greater than the deletions each month). Also the drops in a Landrush Anniversary are spread over a few months because of the Landrush registration pattern. There is typically a huge spike in new registrations in the first few weeks followed by a gradual decline in new registrations as the high value and medium value keyword domains are registered.

    The obvious PPC parking hosters are sedoparking.com, cashparking.com, dsredirection.com,fastpark.net, googleghs.com, parked.com and bodis.com but there is a hidden PPC angle in that many registrars and hosters use Sedo’s registrar PPC parking program to monetise their undeveloped domain names. This is typically done with a Javascript/IFRAME inclusion. However GoDaddy has its own PPC parking program and that tends to be one of the largest in any new TLD.

    In April, May and June, I’ve run a web usage survey on the detected .co domain names. While PPC is at the rate expected for a new TLD in its first year of operation, 3.48% of .co websites in the June survey redirected to exact match websites in other TLDs. This is brand protection registration activity by small businesses and individuals who consider that it is worth protecting their domain in .co ccTLD. Another 8.2% redirected to other TLD websites.

    It is going to take a few years for real development to get underway in .co ccTLD but it is off to a good start with so many high profile url shortners. Many users navigate by searchbox rather than the browser’s url bar. They are rarely going to see PPC websites because the search engines tend to keep them very low in the results. The users will, typically, only see developed content unless they type in the .co website url into the url bar.

    High profile sales are great and get a lot of publicity but inspiring development is going to be .co registry’s big challenge for the next few years. While .co is not going to be the .com killer that some fans hope for, it is not going to be the complete wipeout that some naysayers expect either. With many high value keywords parked on PPC in .com, there is an opportunity for developing content on similarly named .co websites. Dumping a high value keyword .co domain on PPC is a waste of a good opportunity.