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 2023 – 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 2023 – 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 2023 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
22,96828,57634,18539,79345,401May 2023Nov 2024May 2026
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Domains transferred
1.13M
May 2023 – May 2026
Busiest month
43.85k
Aug 2023
Both sides agree to
96.07%
44,609 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 2023 – May 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Cloudflare, Inc. 159,607 in / 6,551 out
153.06k
Spaceship, Inc. 68,451 in / 13,072 out
55,379
Porkbun LLC 74,499 in / 34,742 out
39,757
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 40,032 in / 3,846 out
36,186
Dynadot Inc 51,924 in / 27,144 out
24,780
Amazon Registrar, Inc. 14,861 in / 2,814 out
12,047
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 11,380 in / 249 out
11,131
MarkMonitor Inc. 14,193 in / 3,170 out
11,023
Key-Systems, LLC 35,112 in / 24,178 out
10,934
DNSPod, Inc. 19,504 in / 8,767 out
10,737

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 21,511 in / 102,685 out
81,174
GoDaddy.com, LLC 77,692 in / 114,042 out
36,350
NameCheap, Inc. 60,677 in / 92,423 out
31,746
Network Solutions, LLC 3,698 in / 22,446 out
18,748
14,607
Gandi SAS 9,805 in / 24,163 out
14,358
NameSilo, LLC 19,926 in / 32,388 out
12,462
501 accreditations

Showing 1 of 501 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

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.