Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names

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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%

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

  1. Rubens Kuhl says

    Donuts does not run its own back-end; rather, they use Rightside for back-end. Rightside still has more domains than CentralNic.

    • Rubens Kuhl says

      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.

  5. Jay Westerdal says

    Reporting on bad facts… Rightside and Donuts and Ari as far as I know are the same backend.

    • Rubens Kuhl says

      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 Kuhl says

      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.