Moniker.com Drops To Number 10 As Register.com Passes Them

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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

It was just a few months ago in June of this year that Moniker.com dropped to the 9th largest registrar when Resellerclub.com passed them.

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

 

 

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

  3. MHB says

    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.

  5. 1010100 says

    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.

  6. PipeSurfer says

    @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.

  8. SF says

    May not be much longer before Oversee looks to dump Moniker.
    Question is, get out now or wait till then?

  10. Louise says

    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.

  11. Eric says

    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.

  12. newjersey says

    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.

  13. jp says

    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.

  14. jp says

    I probably should have mentioned to be clear that the .ws domain I registered, I registered it with Moniker

  15. Michael H. Berkens says

    JP

    Its possible that Moniker uses Key Systems for some extensions like .WS?

    You register any .com’s over there recently?

  16. Jp says

    @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.