Registrar and registry changes

Renames, terminations, platform migrations, changes of registry operator and backend transitions — the visible traces of mergers, acquisitions and reassignments in the new-gTLD industry.

These are observations, not announcements. ICANN publishes no machine-readable record of mergers or registry assignments, so each row below is simply a case where what ICANN or IANA publishes today differs from what it published before. A rename usually follows a corporate change but can also be a rebrand; a registrar's RDAP platform moving to another company's infrastructure is strong evidence of an acquisition, but it is still evidence rather than confirmation.

Changes detected

since collection began

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may affect a curated grouping

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Accreditation status

5 occurrences

Detected	Entity	Change	From	To
18 Sep 2026	Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com IANA 4318	Accreditation status	Accredited	Terminated
18 Sep 2026	Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. IANA 3233	Accreditation status	Accredited	Terminated
31 Aug 2026	Cityhost LLC IANA 4892	Accreditation status	Terminated	Accredited
31 Aug 2026	China Organizational Name Service Center of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform IANA 1379	Accreditation status	Accredited	Terminated
30 Aug 2026	Cityhost LLC IANA 4892	Accreditation status	Accredited	Terminated

Why history is not lost when this happens

Every time series on this site is keyed on an identifier that survives a corporate change: registrar figures on the ICANN-assigned IANA number, TLD figures on the string itself. Neither is reissued when a company is acquired or renamed, so a rename moves the label without disturbing a single historical row.

What a rename would otherwise destroy is the knowledge that it happened, and the previous value. That is what this page is for. Where an accreditation's domains are genuinely moved to a different accreditation, the volume legitimately leaves one row and appears in another — the combined registrar view is the way to read that as one company rather than two unrelated movements.

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 17 September 2026 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for May 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.