Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which legacy gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over May 2016 – May 2026, and which lost them, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

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Registrars combined into families individual accreditations

Domains transferred by month, May 2016 – May 2026

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

How much moving happens, over time. One line rather than two: at namespace level gains and losses are the same number, because every transfer has a gaining registrar and a losing one. Drag the strip below the chart to set any window — everything on this page follows it.

May 2016 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All

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Domains transferred

66.65M

May 2016 – May 2026

Busiest month

1.21M

Aug 2022

Both sides agree to

99.99%

8,279 apart — unfiled reports

This says how many, not from whom. ICANN publishes each registrar's gains and each registrar's losses. It does not publish who transferred to whom, and the totals do not imply it: in .com alone those totals are 5,592 numbers describing 7,814,820 possible flows between 2,796 registrars, so a great many completely different sets of routes produce exactly these figures. A pair can be bounded — the flow from one registrar to another is at most the smaller of one's losses and the other's gains — and for the large registrars that bound is nearly the whole column, so it is not published either. Which clock this is on.

Showing corporate families. One company often holds several accreditations and moves customers between them, which reads as a transfer at each end. Namecheap owns both Spaceship and NameCheap, Inc.: individually those are the largest gainer and the largest loser in the new gTLDs, and together they are up 1,440. Grouping makes net exact, because an internal move adds one to a family's gains and one to its losses and cancels — but in and out still contain it, so read a family's gross as an upper bound. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

Biggest net gainers

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Transfers in minus transfers out, over May 2016 – May 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 6,611,414 in / 906,887 out · family of 500

5.70M

Namecheap 3,449,828 in / 1,934,635 out · family of 2

1.52M

Cloudflare, Inc. 1,599,346 in / 107,218 out

1.49M

HOSTINGER operations, UAB 785,533 in / 144,556 out

640.98k

GoDaddy 10,821,321 in / 10,200,569 out · family of 4

620.75k

Dynadot Inc 1,793,912 in / 1,276,238 out · family of 24

517.67k

NameSilo, LLC 1,274,018 in / 757,595 out

516.42k

DomainAdministration.com, LLC 599,193 in / 134,437 out · family of 6

464.76k

Amazon Registrar, Inc. 588,820 in / 141,746 out

447.07k

Porkbun LLC 574,192 in / 181,148 out

393.04k

Biggest net losers

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

The same figure the other way. A registrar can lose heavily and still grow, if it registers more than it loses.

Tucows 1,806,394 in / 3,902,355 out · family of 3

2.10M

eNom, LLC 961,815 in / 2,820,633 out

1.86M

TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 5,620,999 in / 7,439,252 out · family of 1,252

1.82M

DropExtra.com, LLC 14,325 in / 1,739,179 out · family of 516

1.72M

Newfold Digital 2,574,651 in / 3,633,199 out · family of 3

1.06M

PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 1,104,641 in / 1,889,554 out

784.91k

Xin Net Technology Corporation 569,934 in / 1,348,687 out

778.75k

eName Technology Co., Ltd. 496,173 in / 1,245,829 out

749.66k

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 242,479 in / 664,980 out

422.50k

IONOS SE 473,844 in / 844,361 out

370.52k

Showing 100 of 1,214 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
Tucows family of 3	8,876,878	1,806,394	3,902,355	▼ -2,095,961	50.05%	17
eNom, LLC	2,644,014	961,815	2,820,633	▼ -1,858,818	32.32%	14
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com family of 1,252	4,452,983	5,620,999	7,439,252	▼ -1,818,253	199.67%	8
DropExtra.com, LLC family of 516	448,629	14,325	1,739,179	▼ -1,724,854	129.11%	6
Newfold Digital family of 3	6,404,973	2,574,651	3,633,199	▼ -1,058,548	55.43%	13
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	2,846,906	1,104,641	1,889,554	▼ -784,913	59.51%	14
Xin Net Technology Corporation	769,286	569,934	1,348,687	▼ -778,753	40.15%	12
eName Technology Co., Ltd.	506,839	496,173	1,245,829	▼ -749,656	45.21%	6
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	2,793,086	242,479	664,980	▼ -422,501	24.13%	14
IONOS SE	5,208,210	473,844	844,361	▼ -370,517	23.54%	14
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) family of 3	4,310,026	3,144,990	3,512,860	▼ -367,870	81.61%	12
Bluehost Inc.	1,247,710	355,509	705,245	▼ -349,736	44.04%	10
Bizcn.com, Inc.	138,891	97,725	425,985	▼ -328,260	48.00%	11
Name.com, Inc. family of 6	2,020,828	605,436	860,703	▼ -255,267	72.55%	16
22net, Inc. family of 4	111,979	258,510	477,849	▼ -219,339	45.81%	9
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	758,738	369,900	582,353	▼ -212,453	52.87%	10
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd.	71,338	52,552	261,916	▼ -209,364	65.68%	11
FBS Inc.	7,521	42,482	245,343	▼ -202,861	51.51%	14
OnlineNIC, Inc.	179,640	77,436	277,631	▼ -200,195	45.47%	14
Sea Wasp, LLC	151,152	86,111	274,507	▼ -188,396	42.70%	10
Leascend Technology Co., Ltd.	–	33,129	213,066	▼ -179,937	57.83%	9
Beijing Innovative Linkage Software Service Co. Ltd	–	8,225	174,465	▼ -166,240	36.53%	4
West263 International Limited	247,691	71,917	229,837	▼ -157,920	35.09%	9
Cloud Yuqu LLC	279,873	8,104	146,141	▼ -138,037	45.49%	2
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	240,567	35,717	171,556	▼ -135,839	33.06%	14
Moniker Online Services LLC	230,390	60,904	180,760	▼ -119,856	39.02%	10
123-Reg Limited	675,727	95,294	207,379	▼ -112,085	32.30%	3
Hongkong Domain Name Information Management Co., Ltd.	–	5,716	112,185	▼ -106,469	25.18%	8
InterNetX GmbH	952,909	352,508	444,176	▼ -91,668	60.29%	17
Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd.	77,305	83,427	170,129	▼ -86,702	51.92%	12
Mesh Digital Limited	543,992	232,870	319,073	▼ -86,203	49.96%	14
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd	–	23,542	104,206	▼ -80,664	90.97%	7
DomainSpot LLC	132,092	8,747	85,758	▼ -77,011	30.39%	12
Sav.com, LLC family of 51	639,586	516,220	588,495	▼ -72,275	113.59%	11
Register SPA	671,470	142,932	214,398	▼ -71,466	47.77%	12
COREhub, S.R.L.	94,833	39,025	109,226	▼ -70,201	69.24%	17
TLDS L.L.C. d/b/a SRSPlus	94,420	34,510	103,606	▼ -69,096	55.77%	7
July Name Limited	355,416	291,714	360,519	▼ -68,805	92.84%	11
Gandi SAS	846,028	272,466	340,712	▼ -68,246	56.13%	17
Xiamen 35.com Information Co., Ltd.	139,325	14,007	80,346	▼ -66,339	31.80%	10
Metaregistrar BV	682,752	64,749	128,690	▼ -63,941	28.33%	13
Launchpad.com Inc.	375,569	135,635	194,370	▼ -58,735	41.13%	5
DNC Holdings, Inc.	321,769	42,768	100,710	▼ -57,942	27.09%	13
MAT BAO CORPORATION	142,202	9,542	61,687	▼ -52,145	18.24%	11
NetRegistry Pty Ltd.	–	4,584	56,632	▼ -52,048	44.94%	2
DOMAIN NAME NETWORK PTY LTD	28,077	2,443	50,440	▼ -47,997	45.22%	8
Cronon GmbH	995,688	100,468	147,115	▼ -46,647	21.08%	12
BigRock Solutions Ltd.	197,933	60,768	106,539	▼ -45,771	42.19%	13
Super Registry Ltd family of 4	117,870	113,828	158,156	▼ -44,328	108.54%	12
DomainPeople, Inc.	205,744	23,842	63,269	▼ -39,427	26.32%	13
Arsys Internet, S.L. dba NICLINE.COM	397,784	79,488	116,241	▼ -36,753	42.68%	8
Net 4 India Limited	–	4,199	39,209	▼ -35,010	27.41%	11
DreamHost, LLC	751,962	137,706	171,956	▼ -34,250	38.85%	8
Nics Telekomunikasyon A.S.	337,247	108,909	142,481	▼ -33,572	57.03%	9
Nominalia Internet S.L.	111,543	26,431	59,803	▼ -33,372	64.14%	13
Global Domain Name Trading Center Ltd	12,654	1	28,438	▼ -28,437	19.20%	2
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd	224,996	66,753	92,107	▼ -25,354	8.78%	14
Domainshype.com, LLC	7,834	7,966	32,601	▼ -24,635	107.52%	2
NamePal.com, LLC	–	10,503	33,497	▼ -22,994	88.50%	8
Hebei Guoji Maoyi (Shanghai) LTD dba HebeiDomains.com	–	916	23,506	▼ -22,590	36.36%	2
Guangdong JinWanBang Technology Investment Co., Ltd.	18,513	5,956	28,510	▼ -22,554	21.26%	2
Hostopia Canada Corp	76,160	8,811	30,444	▼ -21,633	21.37%	7
united-domains GmbH	425,852	60,956	82,369	▼ -21,413	28.65%	16
Hello Internet Corp.	83,056	13,702	35,070	▼ -21,368	42.24%	8
GKG.NET, INC.	62,275	10,630	31,951	▼ -21,321	35.28%	11
NordNet SA	31,317	1,375	22,250	▼ -20,875	27.76%	11
Namebay SAM	87,909	32,721	53,441	▼ -20,720	68.53%	13
Shanghai Yovole Networks, Inc.	2,996	1,392	21,830	▼ -20,438	28.04%	8
Vautron Rechenzentrum AG	196,885	74,734	94,577	▼ -19,843	51.86%	13
CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED	66,423	21,069	39,378	▼ -18,309	29.84%	9
17 Domain 1, Limited family of 6	1,209	1,126	19,404	▼ -18,278	29.97%	2
NameSecure L.L.C.	50,439	1,014	18,955	▼ -17,941	17.64%	7
Danesco Trading Ltd.	36,290	13,157	31,073	▼ -17,916	42.13%	10
Hongkong Kouming International Limited	91,679	1,702	19,463	▼ -17,761	19.64%	8
NextName B.V. d/b/a RegistrarHub	26,357	16,503	34,005	▼ -17,502	86.45%	9
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER	140,716	19,284	36,632	▼ -17,348	21.54%	14
Net-Chinese Co., Ltd.	46,849	5,092	21,811	▼ -16,719	13.71%	15
Click Registrar, LLC dba publicdomainregistry.com	–	0	16,505	▼ -16,505	17.51%	8
Foshan YiDong Network Co., LTD	4,018	787	16,658	▼ -15,871	20.51%	9
Xiamen Nawang Technology Co., Ltd	37,135	8,042	23,731	▼ -15,689	27.57%	10
Ourdomains Limited	23,703	33,668	49,084	▼ -15,416	143.30%	10
Todaynic.com, Inc.	25,733	5,163	20,455	▼ -15,292	25.81%	12
NetArt Registrar Sp. z o.o.	34,496	3,196	18,196	▼ -15,000	23.39%	5
Commerce Island, LLC	–	0	14,463	▼ -14,463	400.42%	5
Name SRS AB	938,705	111,550	125,104	▼ -13,554	25.21%	15
IDC Frontier Inc.	12,619	2,813	16,296	▼ -13,483	63.17%	9
Go Canada Domains, LLC	21,271	0	12,479	▼ -12,479	26.42%	11
BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC. (dba "NameJuice.com”)	18,687	251	12,460	▼ -12,209	20.28%	4
CCI REG S.A.	1,258	3,024	15,180	▼ -12,156	99.16%	10
Chengdu Fly-Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	56,176	37,025	49,059	▼ -12,034	118.95%	8
TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd.	23,913	11,353	23,236	▼ -11,883	18.04%	11
Domdrill.com, LLC	–	0	11,835	▼ -11,835	301.84%	2
Rank USA, LLC	–	0	11,671	▼ -11,671	319.14%	5
Go France Domains, LLC	20,660	0	11,487	▼ -11,487	24.11%	11
Dotname Korea Corp.	13,847	16,915	27,650	▼ -10,735	47.87%	13
Go China Domains, LLC	18,565	0	10,563	▼ -10,563	22.82%	11
Go Australia Domains, LLC	19,225	0	10,525	▼ -10,525	20.98%	11
DNSPod, Inc.	559,958	717,607	728,029	▼ -10,422	156.39%	11
Gabia, Inc.	513,118	37,684	48,038	▼ -10,354	16.60%	14
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH	24,777	10,625	20,949	▼ -10,324	71.80%	16

Turnover is transfers in plus transfers out, against the largest book the registrar held during the window. It measures how much of a book moved rather than which way: a registrar that gained 20,000 and lost 20,000 has a net of nothing and has still had 40,000 domains change hands. Above 100% is possible and not a mistake: a year of movement can exceed any single month's holdings, because a domain can be registered and transferred away inside the same year. It means the equivalent of more than the whole book changed hands.

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.