Who are the companies behind your domains?

Analytics names the registrars, DNS hosts, parking services and aftermarkets that domains move between. Many of them are little known outside their home market, so here is who runs each one, where it is based and what it does, with the sources for every fact.

Who is Above.com?Above.com is a platform for domain investors from Melbourne, Australia, founded in 2008. It began with domain parking and now also runs an ICANN-accredited registrar, a marketplace and brokerage. It is a Trellian company and sends parked traffic to Trellian’s own advertiser network among other channels.
Who is Afternic?Afternic is a domain aftermarket: owners list names they want to sell, and registrars show those listings to customers searching for a domain. GoDaddy bought Afternic in September 2013, together with the parking service SmartName and the name generator NameFind, and runs it as its aftermarket network.
Who is Alibaba Cloud?Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing business of the Chinese technology group Alibaba, founded in 2009 and tied to Alibaba’s home city of Hangzhou. In China it registers domains under the HiChina brand (万网, net.cn), and it runs DNS for the domains its customers point to it.
Who is ALL-INKL?ALL-INKL.COM is a German web hosting company founded in 2000 and owned by René Münnich, trading as Neue Medien Münnich in Friedersdorf, Saxony. It hosts websites, email and domains, mostly for customers in Germany, and its servers answer DNS for the domains it hosts.
What is Amazon Route 53?Amazon Route 53 is the DNS service of Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in December 2010. Customers create a hosted zone for a domain and Route 53 answers its DNS queries from AWS’s global network of DNS servers. Amazon also registers domains through its own ICANN-accredited registrar, Amazon Registrar, Inc.
Who is Aruba?Aruba S.p.A. is an Italian hosting, cloud and domain company founded in 1994 and based in Ponte San Pietro near Bergamo, where it runs what it describes as Italy’s largest data center campus. It is wholly Italian-owned, reports around 16 million users and is an ICANN-accredited registrar.
Who is Squadhelp?Squadhelp is a naming and branding marketplace that sells brandable domain names and runs naming contests. It renamed itself Atom in April 2024 and now uses atom.com. It is based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, is led by its founder and CEO Darpan Munjal, and received an investment from Hilco Digital Assets in 2023.
What is Azure DNS?Azure DNS is Microsoft’s DNS hosting service in its Azure cloud. It answers queries for hosted domains from Azure’s global network of nameservers and is managed through the Azure portal, command line or API. It does not sell domain names; those are bought from a registrar and pointed to Azure.
Who is Beget?Beget is a Russian hosting and cloud provider based in Saint Petersburg. It sells shared hosting, virtual and dedicated servers, cloud services and domain names, and it is an ICANN-accredited registrar. The company dates its start to 2009.
Who is BigRock?BigRock is an Indian domain and hosting brand that began in the Directi group. Endurance International Group bought it with ResellerClub in January 2014, and it is now a brand of Newfold Digital. The registrar is ICANN-accredited as BigRock Solutions Ltd.
Who is Bluehost?Bluehost is a web hosting company founded in 2003 in Provo, Utah, by Matt Heaton and Danny Ashworth, and best known for WordPress hosting. Endurance International Group bought it in 2012, and it is now a brand of Newfold Digital, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
Who is Bodis?Bodis is a domain parking company: owners point domains they are not using to its nameservers, Bodis shows ads on them and pays the owner a commission on the revenue. It also helps owners sell domains through a listing program. Bodis was founded by Matt Wegrzyn and bought the domain investor forum NamePros in 2012.
Who is Cloudflare?Cloudflare is an American network and security company founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway and based in San Francisco. It runs DNS, content delivery and security services for websites, and it is also an ICANN-accredited registrar. Cloudflare has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NET) since September 2019.
Who is Crazy Domains?Crazy Domains is a domain and hosting brand founded in Australia in 2007 and run by Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd in Singapore. Web.com agreed to buy Dreamscape Networks in 2018, and Newfold Digital, which Web.com became part of in 2021, counts Crazy Domains among the brands it brought in.
Who is Dan.com?Dan.com was a domain marketplace known for lease-to-own sales. GoDaddy bought it in 2022 for US$71.4 million, stopped sales on it in October 2024, moved sellers to its Afternic marketplace and retired the platform in June 2025.
Who is DigitalOcean?DigitalOcean is an American cloud provider aimed at developers, startups and small businesses. It offers virtual servers, databases and a free DNS service for domains its customers point to it, and it has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (DOCN) since March 2021.
Who is DNS.COM?DNS.COM (帝恩思) is a Chinese DNS company that sells cloud DNS to the Chinese internet market, mostly through registrars, cloud and CDN providers and network operators rather than directly. It listed on China’s National Equities Exchange and Quotations (the “New Third Board”) in June 2016.
Who is DNSPod?DNSPod is a DNS and domain service that belongs to Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of the Chinese technology group Tencent. Wu Hongsheng started it in 2006 as a free DNS hosting platform, and Tencent bought it in 2011. Tencent Cloud describes it today as its product for domain and DNS services.
Who is Domain.com?Domain.com is a domain registrar brand of Newfold Digital, the American web services company that also owns Bluehost, HostGator and Network Solutions. It came to Newfold from Endurance International Group, whose web presence business merged with Web.com in 2021.
Who is DonWeb?DonWeb is a hosting company and domain registrar from Rosario, Argentina. It started in 2002 as Dattatec, a company with Argentine capital, and grew into one of the largest hosting providers by volume in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Its registrar is ICANN-accredited as Dattatec Corp.
Who is DreamHost?DreamHost is an American web hosting company and ICANN-accredited registrar. Four undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College in California started it in 1997 as New Dream Network. It says it has stayed independent and employee-owned since then, and it now works fully remotely.
Who is Dynadot?Dynadot is a privately held domain registrar from San Mateo, California, founded by Todd Han in 2002. It is popular with domain investors, runs its own marketplace and auctions, and has been ICANN-accredited since 2012. It reports more than 10 million domains under management.
Who is Enom?Enom is a wholesale domain registrar: web hosts and resellers sell domains to their own customers through its platform under their own brand. Tucows, the Toronto-based domain and internet company, bought Enom from Rightside Group in January 2017, adding 14.5 million domains and 28,000 active resellers.
Who is Gandi?Gandi is a French domain registrar and hosting company founded in 1999 by Pierre Beyssac, Laurent Chemla and Valentin Lacambre, with its head office in Paris. In February 2023 it combined with Total Webhosting Solutions to form Your.Online, a group backed by the Dutch family office Strikwerda Investments, and it kept its own name.
Who is GMO Pepabo?GMO Pepabo is a Japanese internet company in the GMO Internet Group, best known for the Lolipop! hosting service and the MuuMuu Domain registration service. It was founded in Fukuoka in January 2003 as paperboy&co., became part of GMO Internet in 2004, took its current name in 2014 and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (3633).
Who is GoDaddy?GoDaddy is the largest domain registrar in the world by its own count, with more than 84 million domains, and is based in Tempe, Arizona. Bob Parsons founded it in 1997. Besides registering domains it hosts websites and DNS, and runs the Afternic aftermarket and the CashParking service.
What is GoDaddy CashParking?CashParking is GoDaddy’s domain parking service. Owners point unused domains to its nameservers, GoDaddy’s advertising partners show ads on them, and the owner receives a share of the click revenue, up to 80% on the Premium plan.
What is Google Cloud DNS?Cloud DNS is Google Cloud’s managed authoritative DNS service. It publishes a domain’s records from Google’s anycast nameservers around the world, so customers do not run their own DNS servers, and Google promises 100% availability for those nameservers.
Who is Hetzner?Hetzner Online is a German hosting and cloud provider founded by Martin Hetzner in 1997 in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria. It runs its own data center parks in Falkenstein and Nuremberg in Germany and in Helsinki, Finland, sells dedicated and cloud servers, and is an ICANN-accredited registrar.
Who is HostGator?HostGator is a web hosting company that Brent Oxley started in a Florida dorm room in October 2002. It moved to Houston, Texas, in 2006, was bought by Endurance International Group in 2012 and is now a brand of Newfold Digital.
Who is Hostinger?Hostinger is a web hosting company from Lithuania, started in Kaunas in November 2004 as Hosting Media and now headquartered in Vilnius. It sells hosting, website building and domains to more than five million users in over 150 countries and is an ICANN-accredited registrar.
Who is Hover?Hover is the retail domain registrar of Tucows, the Toronto-based domain and internet company that also owns Enom and OpenSRS. Tucows launched Hover in December 2008 as the new name of its retail division. Hover sells domains and email but no website building or web hosting.
Who is HugeDomains?HugeDomains is a premium domain marketplace in Denver, Colorado, that owns and sells a large portfolio of names. Its parent company is TurnCommerce, Inc., which also owns the registrar NameBright and the drop-catching service DropCatch.
Who is IONOS?IONOS is a German hosting and cloud provider for small and medium businesses, run by IONOS SE in Montabaur. Its holding company, IONOS Group SE, has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since February 2023 and is majority-owned by United Internet. Sedo and STRATO belong to the same group.
Who is MarkMonitor?MarkMonitor is a corporate domain registrar: it manages the domains of large companies, many of them in the Fortune 500, rather than selling to the public. It has been ICANN-accredited since 1999. Clarivate sold it to Newfold Digital in November 2022, and Newfold sold it to the corporate registrar Com Laude on 31 December 2025.
Who is Name.com?Name.com is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2003. It is part of Identity Digital, the domain company formerly called Donuts, which also runs the registries for hundreds of extensions and uses Name.com as its own registrar.
Who is NameBright?NameBright is an ICANN-accredited registrar in Denver, Colorado, owned by TurnCommerce, Inc., the company that also runs the premium-domain shop HugeDomains and the drop-catching service DropCatch. Domains bought at HugeDomains or caught through DropCatch are delivered into NameBright accounts, which is why so many names use its nameservers.
Who is Namecheap?Namecheap is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and hosting company founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall and based in Phoenix, Arizona. It reported more than 17 million domains under management in 2023 and has called itself the world’s second-largest registrar. Its founder also started the separate registrar Spaceship.
Who is NameSilo?NameSilo is a low-cost domain registrar in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 2018 it has been controlled by NameSilo Technologies Corp., a holding company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange that was called Brisio Innovations until December 2018.
Who is Natro?Natro is a Turkish hosting company and domain registrar from Istanbul, founded in 1999. Since 2020 it has belonged to team.blue, a European group of hosting brands, where it runs alongside the Turkish brand Turhost. When team.blue bought it, Natro served more than 120,000 customers and over 500,000 domain names.
Who is Onamae?Onamae.com (お名前.com) is a Japanese domain registrar run by GMO Internet Group, an internet company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It launched in 1999 as the first ICANN-accredited registrar in Asia. Besides domains it offers DNS and web hosting, and that DNS service is why its nameservers appear in the zone files Analytics reads.
Who is OVH?OVHcloud, known as OVH until 2020, is a French cloud and hosting provider founded by Octave Klaba in 1999 and headquartered in Roubaix, where it built its first data center in 2005. It sells servers, cloud, hosting and domains, is an ICANN-accredited registrar, and is listed on Euronext Paris.
Who is ParkingCrew?ParkingCrew is a domain parking service run by Team Internet AG in Munich, Germany. Owners point unused domains to it, and ParkingCrew shows ads on them and shares the revenue. CentralNic bought Team Internet AG in 2019 for US$48 million, and in 2023 the listed group renamed itself Team Internet Group plc after it.
Who is ParkLogic?ParkLogic is a domain parking company founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 2007 by Michael Gilmour together with David Gibbs. It manages the traffic of parked domains for their owners and says it handles over a million names. Gibbs retired in early 2024 and sold his share to Gilmour, who now owns the business.
Who is Porkbun?Porkbun is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar from Oregon in the US Pacific Northwest, founded in March 2015 as a companion registrar to its parent company Top Level Design, the registry behind extensions such as .design. It has grown on low prices and reports more than three million domains under management.
Who is REG.RU?REG.RU is a Russian domain registrar and hosting provider founded in Moscow on 22 May 2006. It became the largest registrar in Russia’s .RU zone in 2013, according to the StatOnline.ru statistics it cites, and in 2021 it became part of the RU-WEB.INVESTMENTS group. It is ICANN-accredited as Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC.
Who is ResellerClub?ResellerClub is a platform for reselling domains and hosting that started in India as part of the Directi group. Endurance International Group bought Directi’s web presence business, including ResellerClub and BigRock, in January 2014, and ResellerClub is now a brand of Newfold Digital, the company Endurance became part of in 2021.
Who is Sedo?Sedo is a domain marketplace and parking service from Cologne, Germany; the name stands for “Search Engine for Domain Offers”. It has been part of the United Internet group since 2001, and Sedo GmbH today belongs to the group’s IONOS Group SE. Its US company, Sedo.com LLC in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an ICANN-accredited registrar.
Who is SiteGround?SiteGround is an independent web hosting company founded in 2004 by two IT graduates and headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, with further offices in Plovdiv and Stara Zagora. It is known for managed WordPress hosting, and domains hosted with it use its nameservers.
Who is Spaceship?Spaceship is a domain registrar and web services platform founded by Richard Kirkendall, who also founded Namecheap. It opened in beta in 2023 and is ICANN-accredited in its own right as Spaceship, Inc. Besides domains it offers hosting and the Spacemail email service, and it reports more than 10 million domains under management.
Who is Squarespace?Squarespace is an American website builder and domain registrar from New York, founded and led by Anthony Casalena. It took over the assets of Google Domains in September 2023, and the investment firm Permira took it private in October 2024 in a deal worth about US$7.2 billion.
Who is TürkTicaret?TürkTicaret.Net is a Turkish internet service company founded in 1999. It sells domains, hosting, servers and email to small and corporate customers, has offices in Istanbul and Bursa, and has been ICANN-accredited since 2006.
Who is united-domains?united-domains is a German domain registrar founded in August 2000 in Starnberg, near Munich. It registers names in hundreds of extensions for private and business customers and is ICANN-accredited as united-domains GmbH.
Who is Unstoppable Domains?Unstoppable Domains is an American company founded in 2018 that started with blockchain-based domain names and became an ICANN-accredited registrar for regular domains in October 2024. It now sells both onchain names and names in over a hundred and fifty ordinary extensions.
Who is Vercel?Vercel is an American cloud platform for deploying websites and web applications, founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015 under the name ZEIT and renamed Vercel in 2020. It creates and maintains the Next.js framework, and domains whose sites run on Vercel can use its nameservers.
Who is Wix?Wix.com is an Israeli website builder founded in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It has been listed on Nasdaq (WIX) since November 2013 and is an ICANN-accredited registrar, so many sites built with Wix also use its domains and nameservers.
Who is behind WordPress.com?WordPress.com is the hosted website and blogging service of Automattic, the San Francisco company founded in 2005 by Matt Mullenweg, a co-creator of the open-source WordPress software. It opened to the public on 21 November 2005. Automattic is also an ICANN-accredited registrar, so sites on WordPress.com can use its domains and nameservers.
Who is XServer?XServer (エックスサーバー) is a Japanese hosting company from Osaka. Its shared hosting service of the same name started in July 2003; the company behind it was founded in January 2004 and took the name XServer Inc. in 2012. It also registers domains as an ICANN-accredited registrar.