Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which new gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over May 2021 – May 2026, and which lost them, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

Registrars combined into families individual accreditations

Domains transferred by month, May 2021 – 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 2021 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
12,78624,38035,97447,56859,162May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
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Domains transferred
1.71M
May 2021 – May 2026
Busiest month
55.96k
Dec 2021
Both sides agree to
97.54%
42,072 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 2021 – May 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Cloudflare, Inc. 185,864 in / 8,177 out
177.69k
Porkbun LLC 99,915 in / 47,962 out
51,953
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 56,309 in / 6,416 out · family of 11
49,893
Dynadot Inc 74,983 in / 41,389 out · family of 19
33,594
Key-Systems 53,522 in / 34,027 out · family of 2
19,495
Namecheap 171,482 in / 152,955 out · family of 2
18,527
DNSPod, Inc. 31,872 in / 15,500 out
16,372
MarkMonitor Inc. 21,477 in / 6,548 out
14,929
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 14,694 in / 1,243 out
13,451
Amazon Registrar, Inc. 16,202 in / 3,266 out
12,936

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.

Squarespace Domains II LLC 46,704 in / 111,509 out
64,805
Sav.com, LLC 34,092 in / 84,396 out · family of 51
50,304
Tucows 64,245 in / 108,657 out · family of 3
44,412
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 40,617 in / 84,476 out · family of 3
43,859
GoDaddy 147,594 in / 186,649 out · family of 4
39,055
Newfold Digital 8,186 in / 39,501 out · family of 3
31,315
19,516
eNom, LLC 11,533 in / 29,721 out
18,188
376 registrars and families
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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 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.