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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
1,289
since collection began
Flagged for review
11
may affect a curated grouping
Most common
Registry operator changed
1,289 occurrences
Filter: all Registry operator changed 1,289 Registrar platform moved 11 Accreditation status 7 Registrar renamed 5 Registry agreement status 1
DetectedEntityChangeFromTo
16 Oct 2026 .africa Registry operator changed ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry… Generic
16 Oct 2026 .afl Registry operator changed Australian Football League Generic
16 Oct 2026 .af Registry operator changed Ministry of Communications and IT Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .aetna Registry operator changed Aetna Life Insurance Company Generic
16 Oct 2026 .aero Registry operator changed Societe Internationale de Telecommunication… Generic
16 Oct 2026 .aeg Registry operator changed Aktiebolaget Electrolux Generic
16 Oct 2026 .ae Registry operator changed Telecommunications and Digital Government R… Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .adult Registry operator changed ICM Registry AD LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .ads Registry operator changed Charleston Road Registry Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .ad Registry operator changed Andorra Telecom Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .actor Registry operator changed Dog Beach, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .aco Registry operator changed ACO Severin Ahlmann GmbH & Co. KG Generic
16 Oct 2026 .accountants Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .accountant Registry operator changed dot Accountant Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .accenture Registry operator changed Accenture plc Generic
16 Oct 2026 .academy Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .ac Registry operator changed Internet Computer Bureau Limited Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .abudhabi Registry operator changed Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre Generic
16 Oct 2026 .abogado Registry operator changed Registry Services, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .able Registry operator changed Able Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .abc Registry operator changed Disney Enterprises, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .abbvie Registry operator changed AbbVie Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .abbott Registry operator changed Abbott Laboratories, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .abb Registry operator changed ABB Ltd Generic
16 Oct 2026 .aarp Registry operator changed AARP Generic
16 Oct 2026 .aaa Registry operator changed American Automobile Association, Inc. Generic
7 Oct 2026 .xn--5tzm5g Registry operator changed Global Website TLD Asia Limited Jolly Host, LLC
8 Sep 2026 .ne Registry operator changed SONITEL Niger Télécoms SA (NIGERTELECOMS)
18 Aug 2026 .bo Registry operator changed Agencia para el Desarrollo de la Informació… Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Tecnologí…

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 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for July 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.