The top gTLD web hosting providers December 2025 Provider - websites - % of gTLD websites | Godaddy (combined) | 33,836,477 | 17.3074 | | Cloudflare | 18,041,738 | 9.2284 | | Amazon (excluding large customers) | 17,323,547 | 8.8610 | | Afternic.com (Sales) | 9,899,666 | 5.0637 | | Google Cloud | 9,686,773 | 4.9548 | | Squarespace, Inc. | 6,973,752 | 3.5671 | | Sedo.com (Parking and Sales) | 5,976,415 | 3.0569 | | Hostinger.com | 5,164,966 | 2.6419 | | Shopify, Inc. (E-comerce) | 3,821,800 | 1.9549 | | Hugedomains.com (Sales) | 3,225,722 | 1.6500 | | OVH | 2,901,242 | 1.4840 | There were 195,503,102 unique gTLD websites in December 2925 survey. Some of the larger providers use Amazon services and their figures are not included in Amazon's figure above. Cloudflare provides CDN, anti-DDoS and DNS services. It is a also an accredited ICANN registrar. Its services are also used by registrants from other registrars. Its gTLD DNS total in December 2025 was approximately 26.9 million. These figures are for gTLD websites. The figures that may be a bit of a shock are those of the sales and auction sites. Domaining and the after market has been the subject of debate on the list in the past. The business is highly automated now and many registrars move their expired gTLD domain names to the auction sites. The old ICANN gTLD life-cycle of a domain name was interrupted decades ago. Cloud hosting is a major part of the market and some providers host websites and services on Cloud hosting as well as their own web hosting. DIY and e-commerce is important. Squarespace and Shopify are just the larger players. Some of the other providers also provide similar DIY website services and shopping cart services. Other large providers such as Wix use Cloud services (Google Cloud in the case of Wix) for much of their websites. At a registry and registrar level, the domain name industry is simple enough. The complexity builds at the DNS level because large operators can own many hosting brands and nameservers. At the website and IP address level, the complexity ramps up a few magnitudes. Think of it as a giant crossword puzzle where some of the clues are missing and others are intentionally wrong. As for the resellers market, measuring it is difficult. The problem for the next new gTLD round is that some of the applicants will, whether they realise it or not, be depending on them to promote their gTLDs. Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc@hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com ********************************************************** -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com