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 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

3.23M

May 2016 – May 2026

Busiest month

247.02k

May 2018

Both sides agree to

99.20%

25,983 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.

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 705,645 in / 329,714 out · family of 3

375.93k

Cloudflare, Inc. 205,647 in / 8,741 out

196.91k

Porkbun LLC 127,441 in / 57,412 out

70,029

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 56,424 in / 6,986 out · family of 11

49,438

Dynadot Inc 90,352 in / 58,521 out · family of 19

31,831

MarkMonitor Inc. 35,797 in / 12,081 out

23,716

DNSPod, Inc. 37,639 in / 16,535 out

21,104

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 40,344 in / 21,858 out · family of 1

18,486

Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 20,884 in / 2,425 out

18,459

Key-Systems 77,715 in / 59,279 out · family of 2

18,436

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.

SHENZHEN EIMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD 7,861 in / 240,990 out

233.13k

GoDaddy 228,267 in / 322,584 out · family of 4

94,317

Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 125,936 in / 191,625 out

65,689

Tucows 99,818 in / 154,972 out · family of 3

55,154

Sav.com, LLC 36,130 in / 84,664 out · family of 51

48,534

Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co., Ltd 18,148 in / 66,308 out

48,160

Squarespace Domains II LLC 71,976 in / 119,456 out

47,480

Minds and Machines LLC 1 in / 46,569 out

46,568

Newfold Digital 17,318 in / 56,594 out · family of 3

39,276

eNom, LLC 30,392 in / 66,756 out

36,364

Showing 48 of 448 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
Virtualia LLC	1,695	0	1,977	▼ -1,977	54.33%	397
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	–	292	2,472	▼ -2,180	3.03%	834
Beijing Innovative Linkage Software Service Co. Ltd	–	14	2,210	▼ -2,196	5.65%	13
IP Mirror Pte Ltd dba IP MIRROR	–	258	2,491	▼ -2,233	30.15%	441
Focus IP, Inc. dba Tracer	–	965	3,447	▼ -2,482	74.72%	509
EU Technology (HK) Limited	–	12	2,623	▼ -2,611	71.88%	351
Namecheap family of 2	10,697,803	216,452	219,247	▼ -2,795	4.07%	478
Edomains LLC	3,111	466	3,348	▼ -2,882	67.31%	410
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd	215,119	6,323	9,498	▼ -3,175	7.18%	502
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd.	10,838	1,866	5,167	▼ -3,301	11.12%	484
Zhengzhou Zitian Network Technology Co., Ltd.	–	0	3,306	▼ -3,306	79.20%	24
Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc	270,849	3,744	7,075	▼ -3,331	0.74%	450
Xin Net Technology Corporation	135,929	12,022	15,411	▼ -3,389	7.91%	417
Leascend Technology Co., Ltd.	–	117	3,560	▼ -3,443	16.34%	103
FBS Inc.	539	683	4,245	▼ -3,562	3.75%	424
Knet Registrar Co., Ltd	81,792	242	4,135	▼ -3,893	2.85%	1
Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd.	6,828	540	4,521	▼ -3,981	10.76%	194
Gandi SAS	189,326	40,514	44,605	▼ -4,091	27.08%	556
GrepApps Technology Inc.	1,342	0	4,155	▼ -4,155	109.00%	376
Zhengzhou Century Connect Electronic Technology Development Co., Ltd	–	7,233	11,973	▼ -4,740	16.32%	351
Cronon GmbH	164,560	15,670	20,823	▼ -5,153	19.97%	400
Bizcn.com, Inc.	10,072	661	7,604	▼ -6,943	3.21%	365
MAFF Inc. family of 3	–	137	7,091	▼ -6,954	61.71%	99
BB-Online UK Limited family of 2	1,109	221	7,189	▼ -6,968	393.73%	521
Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság	126,906	354	7,876	▼ -7,522	5.60%	401
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER	92,600	5,349	13,648	▼ -8,299	15.50%	423
Ourdomains Limited	30	95	10,633	▼ -10,538	51.81%	334
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	7,738,270	1,613	12,765	▼ -11,152	0.19%	452
101domain GRS Limited	43,734	6,993	20,368	▼ -13,375	32.21%	577
1API GmbH	96,543	41,996	55,576	▼ -13,580	48.85%	505
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	92,115	332	14,902	▼ -14,570	3.27%	1,094
West263 International Limited	1,195,812	22,415	37,210	▼ -14,795	2.04%	397
Alpnames Limited	–	3,008	17,976	▼ -14,968	0.68%	348
Mesh Digital Limited	132,740	9,173	26,150	▼ -16,977	21.03%	455
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd.	6,485	2,084	19,469	▼ -17,385	7.11%	387
united-domains GmbH	171,687	10,856	30,303	▼ -19,447	22.38%	503
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	654,801	28,408	55,555	▼ -27,147	6.49%	450
Name.com, Inc. family of 3	685,597	27,085	58,328	▼ -31,243	12.46%	500
eNom, LLC	281,056	30,392	66,756	▼ -36,364	17.59%	503
Newfold Digital family of 3	569,597	17,318	56,594	▼ -39,276	10.13%	461
Minds and Machines LLC	–	1	46,569	▼ -46,568	93.92%	56
Squarespace Domains II LLC	683,019	71,976	119,456	▼ -47,480	15.86%	428
Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co., Ltd	65,441	18,148	66,308	▼ -48,160	79.10%	383
Sav.com, LLC family of 51	234,890	36,130	84,664	▼ -48,534	10.10%	457
Tucows family of 3	1,068,247	99,818	154,972	▼ -55,154	22.50%	575
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	610,916	125,936	191,625	▼ -65,689	6.66%	430
GoDaddy family of 4	7,166,463	228,267	322,584	▼ -94,317	7.69%	495
SHENZHEN EIMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD	1,015	7,861	240,990	▼ -233,129	77.94%	359

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 19 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.