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.
- What it is
- Domain registrar, DNS provider, Web hosting
- Founded by
- Richard Kirkendall, founder of Namecheap
- Launched
- 2023 (beta)
- ICANN accreditation
- Yes, Spaceship, Inc., IANA ID 3862
- Website
- spaceship.com
Is Spaceship part of Namecheap?
It comes from the same founder, and Namecheap announced it, but Spaceship holds its own ICANN accreditation as Spaceship, Inc., separate from Namecheap’s. Its brand names are trademarks of Namecheap, Inc.
How big is Spaceship?
Spaceship reported one million domains under management in June 2024 and more than 10 million in September 2026. These are the company’s own figures.
Spaceship in axath Analytics
Analytics reads the zone files of more than 350 extensions every day and shows which providers gain and lose names, including Spaceship.
Open AnalyticsSources
- IANA: Registrar IDs (ICANN-accredited registrars)
- Namecheap: press release on Spaceship’s first year (2024)
- Spaceship: surpasses 10 million domains under management
Last reviewed October 9, 2026.