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 2023 – May 2026, and which lost them, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

New gTLDs Legacy gTLDs All gTLDs
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
448.89k526.86k604.84k682.81k760.78kMay 2023Nov 2024May 2026
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Domains transferred
21.24M
May 2023 – May 2026
Busiest month
739.27k
Mar 2026
Both sides agree to
99.97%
5,671 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 2023 – May 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 3,871,485 in / 840,482 out · family of 500
3.03M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,017,397 in / 74,829 out
942.57k
Namecheap 1,887,999 in / 952,554 out · family of 2
935.45k
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 693,005 in / 119,708 out
573.30k
Dynadot Inc 909,155 in / 572,924 out · family of 24
336.23k
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 333,282 in / 21,777 out · family of 3
311.51k
Porkbun LLC 371,525 in / 120,031 out
251.49k
230.45k
DomainAdministration.com, LLC 281,471 in / 60,529 out · family of 6
220.94k
Wix.com Ltd. 382,219 in / 161,365 out
220.85k

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.

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 467,291 in / 1,291,560 out · family of 3
824.27k
Newfold Digital 235,662 in / 1,028,075 out · family of 3
792.41k
Squarespace Domains II LLC 79,574 in / 715,185 out
635.61k
eNom, LLC 101,599 in / 695,990 out
594.39k
Tucows 435,317 in / 966,165 out · family of 3
530.85k
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 676,655 in / 1,206,388 out · family of 1,252
529.73k
DropExtra.com, LLC 6,001 in / 487,873 out · family of 516
481.87k
293.83k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 63,425 in / 344,126 out
280.70k
eName Technology Co., Ltd. 28,441 in / 250,294 out
221.85k
549 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.