[grape_]

I ran a similar study a while back - I was curious to see if the YC incentives for startups (Azure credits, Amazon credits, Digital Ocean credits, etc.) were significantly swaying founders to use a technology stack.

You can find a quick analysis of registrars and DNS providers here - https://www.gra.pe/?p=77

You can find architecture analysis here - https://www.gra.pe/?p=36

Interesting stuff.

[grape_]

Also, I'm assuming Datanyze used the publicly facing domain of each of these websites (very similar to what I've done). What you'll notice is a lot of these startups have APIs or apps that have very different domains than the ones being used for their landing pages. I spoke to the folks at Bizspark about this and Azure adoption is pretty high (I believe these are private numbers).

[tedmiston]

Is the most popular domain registrar among YC cos really GoDaddy?

This seems pretty unusual given industry trends over the past, 5+ years. Do you separate GoDaddy resellers from GoDaddy direct?

Update: They are not separated.

> I see Namecheap come up in a lot of hackernews posts for recommended registrars. I’m assuming since Namecheap and many other popular startup-friendly registrars are both resellers of GoDaddy and eNom and are ICAAN accredited registrars, the WHOIS lookup may not reflect the proper registrar (i.e. they may show up as eNom instead of Namecheap).

I'm also surprised to see AWS Route 53 omitted as a registrar, and possibly as a name service, unless that's what "Amazon" under DNS refers to.

Still this data is useful and nice to have as a point of reference.

[manigandham]

What is a "startup-friendly registrar"?

Godaddy has lots of annoying upsells in their checkout flow but they're cheap, fast and work just fine as a registrar and DNS host.