According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains.
ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD’s under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD’s.
However CentralNic is the backend provider for just 24 new gTLD’s at the moment while Donuts has 189 active new gTLD’s using its backend system.
In layman’s terms the backend system is the technology and equipment that makes a domain registry work.
Neustar (NSR) is running third with 1,156,204 domain names on its backend registry system, however Neustar did recently buy ARI which is 15th on the list of backend providers with over 50,000 domain names.
Here are the top 15 backend providers according to ntldstats.com:
| 1. | CentralNic | 24 | 1,426,647 | |
| 2. | Donuts Inc. | 189 | 1,425,466 | 20.30% |
| 3. | Neustar Inc. | 55 | 1,156,204 | 16.46% |
| 4. | ZDNS | 14 | 628,789 | 8.95% |
| 5. | Uniregistry Inc. | 22 | 600,179 | 8.55% |
| 6. | Rightside Registry | 40 | 338,573 | 4.82% |
| 7. | Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co.,Ltd. | 1 | 247,534 | 3.52% |
| 8. | Minds + Machines Ltd | 26 | 233,950 | 3.33% |
| 9. | Afilias Limited | 75 | 223,415 | 3.18% |
| 10. | TLD-BOX Registrydienstleistungen GmbH | 6 | 137,432 | 1.96% |
| 11. | Verisign, Inc. | 59 | 120,950 | 1.72% |
| 12. | AFNIC | 11 | 94,334 | 1.34% |
| 13. | Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences （China Internet Network Information Center） | 2 | 87,965 | 1.25% |
| 14. | GMO Registry, Inc. | 26 | 51,917 | 0.74% |
| 15. | ARI Registry Services | 53 | 50,921 | 0.73% |
Donuts does not run its own back-end; rather, they use Rightside for back-end. Rightside still has more domains than CentralNic.
They luck out having .xyz on-board, otherwise 7th spot.
Rubens
ntldstats.com has always had separate stats for donuts and for rightside, I’m just reporting what they have
So you can remind ntldstats that they counting it wrong them…
… although it’s useful to have a Donuts object to sum up their domains, as they use a plethora of companies. But on an apples to apples comparison, Centralnic need to be compared to Rightside.
As an alma mater of CentralNic, I’m proud.
🙂
Reporting on bad facts… Rightside and Donuts and Ari as far as I know are the same backend.
ARI is a different back-end from Rightside. At this time Neustar has two back-ends: its own and ARI’s, and it’s unclear if they will consolidate.
Rubens is correct. Donuts uses Rightside as their backend provider and thus the apples-to-apples comparison is Rightside to CentralNic.
Rubens
Guess you have someone else to chat with about the numbers today:
http://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/centralnic-group-plc-recognised-as-number-one-globally-in-new-tlds/412675524
Press Releases are not widely known for precision, notably when they can quote independent sources that got it wrong, even when the company doing the PR knows better.
Donut is definitely the engine room of new gTLDs.