datasets/registrar_ownership

registrar_ownership

Name: registrar_ownership
Creator: Open Domain Data
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

public_sources

Corporate ownership of retail registrar brands — brand, owning group, relationship, with a primary source per claim.

Overview#overview

datasetregistrar_ownership

version2026.08

records20

formatsjson

schemaregistrar-ownership.schema.json

sourcescross_site_feed

licenseCC-BY-4.0

last_checked2026-08-24T04:12:00Z

verificationpublic_sources

brand_name	relationship	parent_group_name	parent_type	verification_status
AWS Route 53	independent	—	—	public_sources
Cloudflare Registrar	independent	—	—	public_sources
Domain.com	subsidiary	Newfold Digital	private	public_sources
Dynadot	independent	—	—	public_sources
Gandi	subsidiary	Total Webhosting Solutions / Your.Online	private	public_sources
GoDaddy	independent	—	—	public_sources
Hostinger	independent	—	—	public_sources
Hover	subsidiary	Tucows	public	public_sources
IONOS	subsidiary	United Internet	public	public_sources
Name.com	subsidiary	Identity Digital (Ethos Capital)	—	public_sources
Namecheap	subsidiary	CVC Capital Partners	—	public_sources
NameSilo	subsidiary	NameSilo Technologies Corp.	public	public_sources
Network Solutions	subsidiary	Newfold Digital	private	public_sources
OVHcloud	independent	—	—	public_sources
Porkbun	subsidiary	Top Level Design	private	public_sources
Shopify Domains	independent	—	—	public_sources
Spaceship	subsidiary	CVC Capital Partners	—	public_sources
Squarespace Domains	subsidiary	Squarespace	private	public_sources
Wix Domains	independent	—	—	public_sources
WordPress.com	independent	—	—	public_sources

Field	Type	Required	Description
id	string	required	Stable slug identifier for the brand.
registrar_id	string \| null	optional	Foreign key to registrars.id when the brand has a canonical registrar record; null otherwise.
brand_name	string	required	Consumer-facing brand name.
relationship	enum	required	subsidiary \| brand \| independent.
parent_group_id	string \| null	optional	Slug of the owning corporate group; null when independent.
parent_group_name	string \| null	optional	Name of the owning corporate group; null when independent.
parent_type	enum \| null	optional	public \| private; null when unknown or independent.
source_url	string · uri	optional	Primary source for the ownership claim.
sources	array · enum	required	Provenance.
verification_status	enum	required	See verification statuses.
last_checked	string · date-time	required	ISO 8601 timestamp.

cross_site_feedCompiled ownership records citing corporate reporting per claim
various (source_url per record)

The unversioned paths below always serve the latest release. Versioned files at /api/registrar_ownership@2026.08.json are immutable.

2026-08-24registrar_ownership@2026.08

Release 2026.08. See the full changelog for details.

Open Domain Data (2026). registrar_ownership, v2026.08.
opendomaindata.org/datasets/registrar-ownership. Retrieved 2026-06-01. Licensed CC-BY-4.0.

registrarsCanonical registrar entities — IANA ID, name, RDAP base, status, jurisdiction, with per-field provenance.
registrar_api_capabilitiesDocumented API surface per registrar — auth model, scoped tokens, sandbox, rate limits, with per-field provenance.
dns_capabilitiesDNS feature support per registrar — DNSSEC, ALIAS/ANAME, CAA, API record management.