Spaceship Hits 1 Million DUM – Only 13% of New Registrations are .com

Earlier this morning, Richard Kirkendall shared that Spaceship hit the 1 million Domains Under Management (DUM) mark. Richard is the Founder of Namecheap and its sister registrar, Spaceship, which came out of beta just over a year ago:

Following Richard’s comments, the Spaceship PR team shared some data about the domain names registered via its platform. Some of the data was surprising to me. Here are some of the facts that caused me to do a double take.

  • Only 13% of newly registered domain names on Spaceship were .com.
  • .Shop domain names were the most popular domain names registered by percentage, with 28% of new registrations.
  • The top 5 locations of Spaceship customers are US, China, India, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

What I would find most interesting is seeing some of the new registration stats at Namecheap, which I believe has a more retail oriented customer base. It would be very interesting to know if the new registration trends seen at Spaceship are primarily domain investor related – and potentially skewed – vs. its sister registrar, which I believe has many more businesses as customers.

Hitting 1 million domain names under management in a year is a major milestone.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

3 COMMENTS

  1. RichardK. Or CoachK should thank me for marketing spaceship.

    This time I will waive my marketing consulting fees.
    I have been saying good things about spaceship

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