Chiropractor Domain Research: Findings for Nov 2026
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Earlier this week we looked at what chiropractors name their websites. This time we looked up who holds those names. We pulled the public registry (RDAP) record for the practice domains on ChiropractorNearMe.com listings, and found records for 18,432 of the 18,437 domains. Then we asked who registered each one, when, who runs its DNS, and when it comes up for renewal. This is joint original research by PlanetC1.com, ChiropracticDomains.com, and ChiropractorNearMe.com.
The top 3 registrars
- GoDaddy: 53.2% (9,808 of 18,432 domains, including Wild West Domains)
- Network Solutions family (Network Solutions, Register.com and Domain.com): 15.0% (2,760)
- Tucows / eNom: 8.6% (1,590)
Next come Squarespace Domains at 5.6% (1,025, including domains that moved over from Google Domains), Wix at 3.9% (722) and Namecheap at 3.3% (613). GoDaddy alone holds more chiropractic practice domains than the next eight registrars combined.
Top 5 findings
1. GoDaddy holds more than half of all chiropractic practice domains
53.2% of the domains with a registry record (9,808 of 18,432) are registered at GoDaddy. By single registrar name, GoDaddy.com, LLC alone has 9,503 (51.6%), ahead of Register.com at 2,066 (11.2%) and Tucows Domains at 1,005 (5.5%).
2. Your web vendor may have picked your registrar
Chiropractic web vendors leave a clear pattern. 65.3% of ChiroMatrix sites (1,161 of 1,778) and 62.9% of Online Chiro sites (529 of 841) are registered with the Network Solutions family. 98.8% of ChiroPlanet sites (492 of 498) and 86.5% of Inception sites (815 of 942) are at GoDaddy. Those two vendors account for 1,690 of the Network Solutions family's 2,760 domains (61.2%). If a vendor set up your domain, it is worth confirming the registration is in your practice's name.
3. Registrar, DNS and website are usually three different companies
Only 38.9% of domains (7,164 of 18,432) use their registrar's own DNS service. Cloudflare runs the DNS for 25.0% (4,607) but is the registrar for only 189, and 2,986 of its 4,607 DNS domains (64.8%) are sites built by ChiroMatrix, Online Chiro or ChiroPlanet. Only 35.0% of the Wix-built sites we checked (653 of 1,864) are registered at Wix. And 547 domains (3.0%) still point at Google Domains nameservers, 498 of them now registered at Squarespace Domains.
4. The median practice domain was registered in 2012
The busiest registration year among domains still in use is 2010, with 1,202. 273 were registered before 2000, and 3,443 (18.7%) in 2020 or later. Names changed with the times: the short form "chiro" appears in 23.1% of domains registered in 2000 to 2004 and 35.0% of those registered in 2020 to 2026, while names starting with "dr" fell from 10.3% of pre-2000 domains to 3.1%. Wix or Squarespace runs 11.0% of the checked sites on 2005 to 2009 domains and 32.6% on 2020 to 2026 domains.
5. Most practices renew one year at a time
70.3% of domains (12,951 of 18,432) come up for renewal within 12 months, and 1,455 were due within 60 days of November 9. Only 465 (2.5%) are paid five or more years ahead. In each full month over the next year, between 852 and 1,310 chiropractic practice domains come due. We also found 1,048 domains (5.7%) that do not show the registrar transfer lock (client transfer prohibited) in their registry record.
How many chiropractic websites are there in the U.S.?
We estimate there are 28,000 to 34,000 U.S. chiropractic practice website domains, most likely about 30,000 to 31,600. That puts the 18,437 domains in this study at 54% to 66% of the total. Three methods point to that range. First, we compared our list with chiropractic places in Overture Maps (release 2026-10-21.0), which lists 37,458 distinct website domains for U.S. chiropractic places, 13,064 of them already in our set. A live check of 480 sampled Overture-only domains suggests that about 7,875 of the other 24,394 (up to 10,872) are working practice sites, and a capture-recapture estimate from the two lists gives 29,551 to 33,781. Second, a sample of 30 web searches across large, mid-size and small U.S. towns turned up 341 distinct practice domains, 207 of them (60.7%) already in our set, which works out to 28,045 to 33,263 at a 95% interval. Third, 284 of those 341 (83.3%) were in either list, which gives 31,593. For scale, the Census Bureau counts 39,913 employer offices of chiropractors in 2023 (County Business Patterns, NAICS 621310) and 25,490 nonemployer chiropractic businesses in 2022 (Nonemployer Statistics). The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 61,700 chiropractor jobs in 2025, the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards 2024 table lists 92,930 U.S. licenses (a chiropractor licensed in two states counts twice), and the NPI Registry has 104,545 active individual NPIs with the chiropractor taxonomy (111N) in the 50 states and DC. The website count is well below the office count because many offices share one domain (thejoint.com alone appears on 1,128 Overture places) and some have no site of their own.
From the archive: the GoDaddy Girl married a chiropractor
GoDaddy has been part of PlanetC1.com's story for a long time. In 2005, Candice Michelle starred in GoDaddy's Super Bowl XXXIX commercial, and GoDaddy's own commercials site later billed her as "The Original Go Daddy Girl". What many people don't realize is that she married a chiropractor. On March 14, 2006, we reported that the Go Daddy Girl was the wife of a West Los Angeles chiropractor. Two weeks later we interviewed her husband, Ken Gee Ehrlich, D.C., who told us they were married on May 7, 2005, and that he studied at Cleveland Chiropractic College of Los Angeles.
GoDaddy came up again on August 20, 2007, in Domain Name Expiration Notice, a warning about renewal letters from companies you have never done business with. I wrote: "I have registered nearly every domain I own through a company called GoDaddy," and "My advice, especially if you only have one or a few domains, is to register them for five years or more." In May 2008, in Annual Website Search Engine Listing, I added: "I've used Godaddy since weeks after the company launched."
Nineteen years after that five-year advice, 465 of 18,432 chiropractic practice domains (2.5%) are paid five or more years ahead.
Looking for a domain?
If you are opening a practice or adding a location, ChiropracticDomains.com lists 275 chiropractic domains for practices, clinics, and businesses that serve chiropractors, with checkout and transfer handled by Afternic, a GoDaddy company.
More research is coming
This is the second post in our joint research series, after What Chiropractors Name Their Websites. Coming up: a closer look at how web vendors shape registrars and DNS, how practice names changed over 30 years, a month-by-month renewal calendar, and how we estimated the number of U.S. chiropractic websites. We'll share each piece as the charts and counts are ready.
Questions about the research, or a domain pattern you want us to check next? Get in touch.
How we counted
Study set: 18,437 practice website domains published on ChiropractorNearMe.com listings. Registry records came from RDAP servers listed in the IANA bootstrap file, plus the registries for .us, .co, .me and .io, fetched November 9, 2026. Five domains (three .edu, one .la and one .md) have no public RDAP record, so registry figures use 18,432 domains. Registrars are grouped by parent company. DNS provider is the most common provider among each domain's nameservers. Renewal figures use each domain's registry expiry date as of November 9, 2026.
Original research by PlanetC1.com, ChiropracticDomains.com, and ChiropractorNearMe.com.