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.

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
066,500133.00k199.50k266.00kMay 2016May 2021May 2026
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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 individual ICANN accreditations. This matches ICANN's reports line for line, and it attributes internal moves as though they were the market: 44.5% of the transfer volume here belongs to registrars inside a family, and the largest gainer and largest loser below may be two arms of one company.

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.

Cloudflare, Inc. 205,647 in / 8,741 out
196.91k
Porkbun LLC 127,441 in / 57,412 out
70,029
Spaceship, Inc. 68,469 in / 13,072 out
55,397
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 56,424 in / 4,526 out
51,898
Dynadot Inc 90,352 in / 58,194 out
32,158
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
18,486
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 20,884 in / 2,425 out
18,459

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.

233.13k
GoDaddy.com, LLC 182,084 in / 279,975 out
97,891
NameCheap, Inc. 147,983 in / 206,175 out
58,192
Squarespace Domains II LLC 71,976 in / 119,456 out
47,480
Minds and Machines LLC 1 in / 46,569 out
46,568
eNom, LLC 30,392 in / 66,756 out
36,364
Network Solutions, LLC 12,491 in / 44,179 out
31,688
Name.com, Inc. 27,085 in / 55,749 out
28,664
590 accreditations

Showing 100 of 590 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar Domains In Out Net Turnover TLDs
Navicosoft Pty Ltd 543 6 0 ▲ +6 1.10% 353
Upperlink Limited 853 19 13 ▲ +6 2.12% 48
Henan Weichuang Network Technology Co. Ltd. 15 10 ▲ +5 3.06% 43
Webslice International Pte. Ltd 5 0 ▲ +5 50.00% 308
Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. 4 0 ▲ +4 25.00% 2
ConnectWave co.,Ltd 9 5 ▲ +4 3.45% 281
PT Biznet GIO Nusantara 49 5 1 ▲ +4 7.69% 26
Domainipr Limited 4 1 ▲ +3 8.20% 370
DomainRegistry.com LLC 1,801 9 6 ▲ +3 0.83% 349
GMO Brand Security Inc. 3 0 ▲ +3 0.52% 350
HostPro Lab 93 3 0 ▲ +3 3.23% 266
Netdorm, Inc. dba DnsExit.com 4 1 ▲ +3 11.90% 276
Online Data Services Joint Stock Company 4 1 ▲ +3 1.01% 27
SINO PROFIT (HONG KONG) LIMITED 4 1 ▲ +3 33.33% 2
Taiwan Network Information Center 3 0 ▲ +3 300.00% 1
Ghana Dot Com Ltd. 3 1 ▲ +2 5.13% 10
Lightscend Co.,Ltd. 3 1 ▲ +2 133.33% 65
Secure Registrar, Inc. 6 6 4 ▲ +2 83.33% 394
ShangYu Global Technology Co., Ltd. 8 6 ▲ +2 0.08% 3
SNAPNAMES 16, LLC 2 0 ▲ +2 100.00% 4
Xiamen DCAS Technology Co., Ltd. 2 0 ▲ +2 100.00% 2
Alantron Inc. 4 3 ▲ +1 50.00% 342
Bluehost Inc. 1 0 ▲ +1 3.57% 304
First Alliance Group Ltd T/A Netclues Inc 1 0 ▲ +1 9.09% 359
Greenmark IT GmbH 85 1 0 ▲ +1 1.18% 12
Infinitld (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. 1 0 ▲ +1 20.00% 1
KuwaitNET General Trading Co. 1 0 ▲ +1 0.18% 2
Media Elite Holdings Limited, S.A. 1 0 ▲ +1 100.00% 1
PierX, Inc 4 3 ▲ +1 24.14% 288
Reserved for ICANN's Registry SLA Monitoring System transactions reporting 1 0 ▲ +1 0.11% 984
Suvan Net LLC 1 0 ▲ +1 1.23% 457
Test Registrar 1 0 ▲ +1 0.50% 27
Total Web Solutions Limited 12 11 ▲ +1 14.56% 46
Tube Registrar, LLC 1 0 ▲ +1 100.00% 46
GKG.NET, INC. 8 8 0 12.03% 44
ProNamed LLC 1 1 0 11.76% 275
Vantage of Convergence (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. 4,716 19 19 0 0.81% 348
AccentDomains LLC 0 1 ▼ -1 5.00% 275
BlockHost LLC 27 0 1 ▼ -1 3.70% 275
BrandNames.com SARL 0 1 ▼ -1 3
Costrar EOOD 0 1 ▼ -1 1.00% 372
Domainbox Limited 2 3 ▼ -1 4.46% 4
DomainCreek LLC 0 1 ▼ -1 5.88% 275
DomainTact LLC 0 1 ▼ -1 4.76% 275
DropCatch.com 357 LLC 0 1 ▼ -1 3.13% 275
DropCatch.com 481 LLC 0 1 ▼ -1 4.17% 275
Fan Domains Ltd 0 1 ▼ -1 11.11% 27
NamePal.com, LLC 0 1 ▼ -1 19
Pacific Online Inc. 0 1 ▼ -1 34
Purity Names Incorporated 0 1 ▼ -1 20.00% 199
Reserved 0 1 ▼ -1 215
Reserved for Internal Registry Use 1 2 ▼ -1 5.36% 90
Second Genistrar, LLC 0 1 ▼ -1 0.00% 13
2030138 Ontario Inc. dba NamesBeyond.com and dba GoodLuckDomain.com 0 2 ▼ -2 0.72% 293
AvidDomain LLC 30 0 2 ▼ -2 6.67% 275
Beijing HuaRui Wireless Technology Co., Ltd 15 17 ▼ -2 0.09% 2
DropCatch.com 376 LLC 0 2 ▼ -2 13.33% 275
DropCatch.com 382 LLC 35 0 2 ▼ -2 5.71% 275
DropCatch.com 393 LLC 0 2 ▼ -2 6.25% 275
DropCatch.com 396 LLC 32 0 2 ▼ -2 6.25% 275
DropCatch.com 397 LLC 33 0 2 ▼ -2 6.06% 275
DropCatch.com 403 LLC 21 0 2 ▼ -2 9.52% 275
DropCatch.com 421 LLC 0 2 ▼ -2 11.11% 275
DropCatch.com 513 LLC 0 2 ▼ -2 11.76% 275
DropCatch.com 514 LLC 7 0 2 ▼ -2 28.57% 275
DropCatch.com 515 LLC 5 0 2 ▼ -2 40.00% 275
InsaneNames LLC 0 2 ▼ -2 11.11% 275
NameBake LLC 0 2 ▼ -2 16.67% 275
Nameling.com LLC 23 0 2 ▼ -2 8.33% 275
NoticedDomains LLC 0 2 ▼ -2 11.11% 275
Taka Enterprise Ltd 3 5 ▼ -2 7.77% 75
UM Domains Pte. Ltd. 1 3 ▼ -2 0.14% 464
Domain (Shanghai) Network Technology Co., Ltd 2 5 ▼ -3 0.14% 2
DropCatch.com 358 LLC 27 0 3 ▼ -3 11.11% 275
DropCatch.com 361 LLC 0 3 ▼ -3 14.29% 275
DropCatch.com 453 LLC 28 0 3 ▼ -3 10.71% 275
Kagoya Japan Inc. 6 9 ▼ -3 7.73% 1
Nexigen Digital Pty Ltd 0 3 ▼ -3 1
SecureBackorder EOOD 1 4 ▼ -3 8.77% 427
DOMAINOO SAS 10 14 ▼ -4 32.00% 2
DropCatch.com 380 LLC 0 4 ▼ -4 11.76% 275
DropCatch.com 384 LLC 33 0 4 ▼ -4 12.12% 275
DropCatch.com 392 LLC 31 0 4 ▼ -4 12.90% 275
DropCatch.com 423 LLC 17 0 4 ▼ -4 22.22% 275
DropCatch.com 483 LLC 0 4 ▼ -4 25.00% 275
Dynadot16 LLC 0 4 ▼ -4 5.80% 401
Kheweul.com SA 23 1 5 ▼ -4 17.14% 80
Salestrar EOOD 0 4 ▼ -4 3.05% 426
Tool Domains Ltd dba Edoms.com 87 1 5 ▼ -4 3.03% 422
DropCatch.com 360 LLC 21 0 5 ▼ -5 22.73% 275
DropCatch.com 378 LLC 24 0 5 ▼ -5 20.00% 275
DropCatch.com 390 LLC 32 0 5 ▼ -5 15.63% 275
DropCatch.com 394 LLC 34 0 5 ▼ -5 14.71% 275
DropCatch.com 395 LLC 30 0 5 ▼ -5 16.67% 275
DropCatch.com 422 LLC 0 5 ▼ -5 23.81% 275
NameCentral, Inc. 0 5 ▼ -5 125.00% 309
ORANGE 1 6 ▼ -5 36.84% 2
DropCatch.com 359 LLC 29 0 6 ▼ -6 20.69% 275
DropCatch.com 374 LLC 16 0 6 ▼ -6 35.29% 275
Enset 0 6 ▼ -6 0.33% 12

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 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.