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

1,313

since collection began

Flagged for review

may affect a curated grouping

Most common

Registry operator changed

1,289 occurrences

Detected	Entity	Change	From	To
16 Oct 2026	.airbus	Registry operator changed	Airbus S.A.S.	Generic
16 Oct 2026	.aig	Registry operator changed	American International Group, Inc.	Generic
16 Oct 2026	.ai	Registry operator changed	Government of Anguilla	Country Code
16 Oct 2026	.agency	Registry operator changed	Binky Moon, LLC	Generic
16 Oct 2026	.agakhan	Registry operator changed	Fondation Aga Khan (Aga Khan Foundation)	Generic
16 Oct 2026	.ag	Registry operator changed	UHSA School of Medicine	Country Code
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
15 Oct 2026	D3Serve Labs Inc. dba Namefi IANA 4337	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdap.namefi.io	api.namefi.io
15 Oct 2026	P.A. Viet Nam Company Limited IANA 1649	Registrar renamed	P.A. Viet Nam Company Limited	P.A Viet Nam Company Limited
9 Oct 2026	SALENAMES LTD IANA 1752	Registrar renamed	SALENAMES LTD	Limited Liability Company "DOMAINS.RU"
9 Oct 2026	Upperlink Limited IANA 1749	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdapserver.net	rdap.upperlink.ng
8 Oct 2026	Bolster Inc. IANA 4022	Registrar platform moved ! review	registrars.rdap.org	rdap.bolster.ai
7 Oct 2026	.xn--5tzm5g	Registry operator changed	Global Website TLD Asia Limited	Jolly Host, LLC
3 Oct 2026	Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com IANA 4318	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdap.trustname.com
3 Oct 2026	IPIP INC. IANA 3774	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdap.treasure.cn
3 Oct 2026	IPIP INC. IANA 3774	Accreditation status	Accredited	Terminated
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
18 Sep 2026	Good Name Network Technology Ltd. IANA 1608	Registrar renamed	Good Name Network Technology Ltd.	22 Net Group Limited
8 Sep 2026	.ne	Registry operator changed	SONITEL	Niger Télécoms SA (NIGERTELECOMS)
3 Sep 2026	NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED IANA 3765	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdap.nicenic.net	rdap.nicenic.com
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	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdap.sdc.org.cn
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	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdap.cityhost.ua
30 Aug 2026	Cityhost LLC IANA 4892	Accreditation status	Accredited	Terminated
29 Aug 2026	Tool Domains Ltd dba Edoms.com IANA 3840	Registrar platform moved ! review	rdap.tool.domains	rdap.edoms.com
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 10 November 2026 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.