It took much longer for the economy to effect the domain name industry, but this is the first time that I have seen so many Negative changes for nearly half of the top 15 domain registrars by volume. I think this is just further proof that the economy is clearly effecting not just Aftermarket domain sales, but also registrations and renewals.
The following stats are Positive and Negative changes over the past 30 days to the total amount of domain names registered/transfered in or transfered out/deleted at each registrar.
1 Go Daddy Software 373,488
2 eNom 61,516
3 Network Solutions -4,278
4 Tucows 53,485
5 Melbourne IT -17,289
6 1&1 Internet AG 48,103
7 Wild West Domains 32,436
8 Moniker Online Services -15,500
9 Register.com 9,042
10 PublicDomainRegistry.com -12,173
11 Key-Systems GmbH -311
12 Fabulous.com Pty Ltd -4,922
13 OnlineNIC, Inc. 4,206
14 Dotster 301
15 Intercosmos Media -12,268
Several of the "Gains" are also a good ways down as about 30-60 days ago Godaddy’s positive gains were in the Half Million range. So their gains are also down about 200,000.
