Backend Registry

A Backend Registry is the mandatory technical platform to operate a domain name extension. All registries have one. The backend registry allows accredited registrars to technically sell domain names for each top-level domain (TLD).

Backend Registry Landscape

As of July 2022, nTLDStats listed 37 active backend registries. Below they are listed in order of % share of the industry.

	Backend Registries	how many new gTLDs?	How many domain names?	% Share of the industry
1	CentralNic	94	14,326,376	47.52%
2	Identity Digital	272	5,609,671	18.61%
3	GoDaddy Registry	223	3,820,927	12.67%
4	ZDNS	21	2,199,937	7.30%
5	GMO Registry	48	1,553,799	5.15%
6	Google	46	1,076,778	3.57%
7	Tucows Registry Services	27	502,389	1.67%
8	Domain Name Services (Pty) Ltd	4	211,232	0.70%
9	Afilias	133	128,820	0.43%
10	AFNIC	12	120,199	0.40%
11	CORE Association	19	85,430	0.28%
12	Nominet	64	76,437	0.25%
13	TLD-BOX	4	70,807	0.23%
14	Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH	9	64,511	0.21%
15	Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences	2	55,714	0.18%
16	Beijing Tele-info Network Technology	9	52,664	0.17%
17	RyCE GmbH	4	50,277	0.17%
18	Flexireg	2	27,548	0.09%
19	CoCCA Registry Services (NZ) Limited	6	22,892	0.08%
20	SIDN	2	22,511	0.07%
21	CIRA	3	21,248	0.07%
22	DNS Belgium	2	14,543	0.05%
23	Verisign	118	13,379	0.04%
24	GDN Registry FZ LLC	1	12,018	0.04%
25	NIC Mexico	1	5,693	0.02%
26	Technical Center of Internet	2	1,662	0.01%
27	Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of UAE	5	1,268	0.00%
28	CGI.br	6	983	0.00%
29	Guangzhou YU Wei Information Technology Co.	2	606	0.00%
30	LEMARIT GmbH	3	385	0.00%
31	China Organizational Name Administration Center	2	99	0.00%
32	Qinetics Solutions Sdn Bhd	1	48	0.00%
33	Thai Name Server Co., Ltd.	1	39	0.00%
34	Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.	3	20	0.00%
35	KISA	3	5	0.00%
36	Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited	1	3	0.00%
37	TWNIC	1	1	0.00%