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 2021 – 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 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
411.05k626.19k841.32k1.06M1.27MMay 2021Nov 2023May 2026
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Domains transferred
36.84M
May 2021 – May 2026
Busiest month
1.21M
Aug 2022
Both sides agree to
99.98%
8,408 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.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 6,550,764 in / 906,283 out · family of 500
5.64M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,305,412 in / 97,040 out
1.21M
Namecheap 2,535,397 in / 1,401,689 out · family of 2
1.13M
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 745,248 in / 129,662 out
615.59k
Dynadot Inc 1,374,583 in / 1,034,251 out · family of 24
340.33k
314.02k
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 333,282 in / 21,777 out · family of 3
311.51k
Porkbun LLC 471,188 in / 165,511 out
305.68k
Squarespace Domains LLC 403,409 in / 125,681 out
277.73k
GoDaddy 5,526,242 in / 5,293,714 out · family of 4
232.53k

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.

Newfold Digital 624,365 in / 1,891,904 out · family of 3
1.27M
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 1,059,014 in / 2,309,003 out · family of 3
1.25M
eNom, LLC 196,610 in / 1,243,144 out
1.05M
Tucows 719,316 in / 1,709,013 out · family of 3
989.70k
DropExtra.com, LLC 8,227 in / 982,924 out · family of 516
974.70k
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 2,324,083 in / 3,277,344 out · family of 1,252
953.26k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 83,833 in / 668,034 out
584.20k
480.28k
403.15k
Squarespace Domains II LLC 496,018 in / 833,093 out
337.08k
599 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.