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 2016 – 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 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
275.80k527.25k778.71k1.03M1.28MMay 2016May 2021May 2026
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Domains transferred
66.65M
May 2016 – May 2026
Busiest month
1.21M
Aug 2022
Both sides agree to
99.99%
8,279 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.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 6,611,414 in / 906,887 out · family of 500
5.70M
Namecheap 3,449,828 in / 1,934,635 out · family of 2
1.52M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,599,346 in / 107,218 out
1.49M
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 785,533 in / 144,556 out
640.98k
GoDaddy 10,821,321 in / 10,200,569 out · family of 4
620.75k
Dynadot Inc 1,793,912 in / 1,276,238 out · family of 24
517.67k
NameSilo, LLC 1,274,018 in / 757,595 out
516.42k
DomainAdministration.com, LLC 599,193 in / 134,437 out · family of 6
464.76k
Amazon Registrar, Inc. 588,820 in / 141,746 out
447.07k
Porkbun LLC 574,192 in / 181,148 out
393.04k

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.

Tucows 1,806,394 in / 3,902,355 out · family of 3
2.10M
eNom, LLC 961,815 in / 2,820,633 out
1.86M
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 5,620,999 in / 7,439,252 out · family of 1,252
1.82M
DropExtra.com, LLC 14,325 in / 1,739,179 out · family of 516
1.72M
Newfold Digital 2,574,651 in / 3,633,199 out · family of 3
1.06M
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 1,104,641 in / 1,889,554 out
784.91k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 569,934 in / 1,348,687 out
778.75k
eName Technology Co., Ltd. 496,173 in / 1,245,829 out
749.66k
422.50k
IONOS SE 473,844 in / 844,361 out
370.52k
1,214 registrars and families

Showing 100 of 1,214 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar Domains In Out Net Turnover TLDs
LogicBoxes Naming Services Ltd 83 0 1,259 ▼ -1,259 88.29% 11
China Springboard, Inc. 88 1,359 ▼ -1,271 11.47% 6
Curious Net, LLC 31 0 1,309 ▼ -1,309 45.01% 3
IP Mirror Pte Ltd dba IP MIRROR 850 2,190 ▼ -1,340 7.40% 14
Active Registrar, Inc. 165 1,535 ▼ -1,370 3.15% 6
Alpine Domains Inc. 80,943 31 1,404 ▼ -1,373 1.76% 2
Bangning Digital Technology Co.,Ltd 19,632 322 1,704 ▼ -1,382 10.32% 7
Loopia Hosting AB 3,480 4,874 ▼ -1,394 14.83% 6
NetTuner Corp. dba Webmasters.com 7,369 777 2,173 ▼ -1,396 20.76% 6
SiteName Ltd. 176 1,610 ▼ -1,434 19.70% 8
Ten Network Technology Limited 0 1,440 ▼ -1,440 1
yenkos, LLC 0 1,445 ▼ -1,445 66.25% 6
Ignitela, LLC 0 1,447 ▼ -1,447 62.32% 6
Brandfish.Com Inc 58 0 1,451 ▼ -1,451 124.87% 7
Shanghai Best Oray Information S&T Co., Ltd. 11,951 5,076 6,532 ▼ -1,456 21.87% 5
Costdomain.Com Inc 62 1 1,493 ▼ -1,492 132.56% 8
Edomains LLC 7,700 922 2,453 ▼ -1,531 43.83% 12
Dropping.Co Inc 61 0 1,532 ▼ -1,532 133.33% 7
Namebeacon.Com Inc 70 0 1,532 ▼ -1,532 135.22% 7
Secura GmbH 2,527 684 2,240 ▼ -1,556 54.67% 17
Guangzhou Ming Yang Information Technology Co., Ltd 4,655 263 1,888 ▼ -1,625 21.63% 7
ITEASY Inc. 10,535 1,918 3,559 ▼ -1,641 36.87% 2
Namesaw.Com Inc 63 0 1,644 ▼ -1,644 139.44% 7
Namemaster RC GmbH 514 2,186 ▼ -1,672 115.63% 2
Crystal Coal, LLC 35 0 1,673 ▼ -1,673 43.07% 3
DomainRegistry.com LLC 102,817 1,171 2,844 ▼ -1,673 3.90% 8
The Namespace Group Pty Ltd 1,090 22 1,752 ▼ -1,730 22.92% 6
Nikko Reg LLP 8,740 199 1,953 ▼ -1,754 10.68% 2
Hosteur SARL 6,247 1,247 3,142 ▼ -1,895 22.84% 10
DomainContext, Inc. 5,847 3,886 5,823 ▼ -1,937 30.55% 13
Interlink Co., Ltd. 3,859 621 2,559 ▼ -1,938 56.22% 9
Domain-It!, Inc. 12,851 1,808 3,748 ▼ -1,940 24.68% 10
Beijing Zhuoyue Shengming Technologies Company Ltd. 168 212 2,225 ▼ -2,013 38.88% 8
Gabia C&S 0 2,154 ▼ -2,154 74.05% 2
Virtualia LLC 7,529 6 2,187 ▼ -2,181 29.13% 10
Webair Internet Development, Inc. 840 261 2,519 ▼ -2,258 40.80% 7
WIXI Incorporated 329 2,828 ▼ -2,499 125.68% 6
Enetica Pty Ltd 302 2,951 ▼ -2,649 15.06% 3
Registration Technologies, Inc. 4 2,820 ▼ -2,816 36.00% 5
HANGANG Systems, Inc. dba Doregi.com 9,793 756 3,590 ▼ -2,834 22.00% 10
NetraCorp LLC dba Global Internet 31 2,868 ▼ -2,837 85.39% 5
Universo Online S/A (UOL) 58 2,903 ▼ -2,845 2.29% 2
Register4Less, Inc. 25,671 2,911 5,783 ▼ -2,872 21.74% 10
Mps Infotecnics Limited 169 231 3,143 ▼ -2,912 72.11% 8
Cloud Sun, LLC 0 3,055 ▼ -3,055 69.97% 3
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 85,884 29,959 33,016 ▼ -3,057 49.24% 15
Domreg Ltd 8,892 197 3,294 ▼ -3,097 18.26% 2
Terranet (India) Private Limited 2,800 19,537 22,667 ▼ -3,130 55.19% 11
Wingu Networks, S.A. de C.V. 13,411 1,449 4,598 ▼ -3,149 21.36% 2
Cloud Shark, LLC 0 3,151 ▼ -3,151 72.19% 3
Netpia.com, Inc. 8,628 461 3,708 ▼ -3,247 20.41% 8
Cloud Super, LLC 0 3,319 ▼ -3,319 76.83% 3
Global Village GmbH 5,055 1,440 4,827 ▼ -3,387 61.54% 12
No-IP Technologies, LLC 32,912 6,578 9,965 ▼ -3,387 45.35% 5
Cloud Boom, LLC 0 3,439 ▼ -3,439 94.35% 3
Cloud Plum, LLC 0 3,454 ▼ -3,454 79.53% 3
Cloud Seed, LLC 0 3,490 ▼ -3,490 80.67% 3
Webhero, Inc. 7,024 154 3,645 ▼ -3,491 17.76% 8
Premierename.ca Inc. 100 3,632 ▼ -3,532 58.13% 2
Freeparking Limited 359 1,559 5,135 ▼ -3,576 66.06% 5
Cloud Diamond, LLC 0 3,588 ▼ -3,588 84.01% 3
Cloud System, LLC 0 3,611 ▼ -3,611 81.37% 3
Purenic Japan Inc. 97 3,727 ▼ -3,630 93.93% 7
Cloud Bamboo, LLC 0 3,676 ▼ -3,676 93.47% 3
Misk.com, Inc. 22,028 1,922 5,687 ▼ -3,765 18.70% 7
Cloud Beauty, LLC 0 3,780 ▼ -3,780 97.42% 3
Cloud Orchid, LLC 0 3,791 ▼ -3,791 85.65% 3
Cloud City, LLC 0 3,837 ▼ -3,837 88.72% 3
Alantron Inc. 6,314 2,155 6,008 ▼ -3,853 41.56% 9
PT Ardh Global Indonesia 8,701 3,086 6,992 ▼ -3,906 25.38% 8
Fluccs - The Australian Cloud Pty Ltd 2,509 693 4,677 ▼ -3,984 52.71% 3
AllGlobalNames, S.A. dba Cyberegistro.com 13 4,085 ▼ -4,072 98.65% 7
Acens Technologies, S.L.U. 160,793 50,709 54,797 ▼ -4,088 50.71% 10
Vodien Internet Solutions Pte Ltd 1,426 3,747 7,921 ▼ -4,174 62.04% 6
Total Web Solutions Limited 10,689 3,369 7,561 ▼ -4,192 46.94% 9
In2net Network Inc. 6,622 5,539 9,758 ▼ -4,219 22.72% 8
The Registry at Info Avenue, LLC d/b/a Spirit Communications 10,329 1,965 6,212 ▼ -4,247 28.06% 5
Beijing Guokeyun Computing Technology Co., Ltd 2,613 2,044 6,322 ▼ -4,278 72.32% 9
NHN JAPAN Corp. 527 4,849 ▼ -4,322 86.06% 4
UK-2 Limited 1,453 1,596 6,090 ▼ -4,494 54.69% 8
Guangdong Nicenic Technology Co., Ltd. dba NiceNIC 6,712 2,455 7,024 ▼ -4,569 17.40% 12
NetEarth One Inc. d/b/a NetEarth 88,894 36,319 40,927 ▼ -4,608 49.87% 10
EJEE Group Holdings Limited 3,293 8,074 ▼ -4,781 40.74% 9
Freeparking Domain Registrars, Inc. 458 5,294 ▼ -4,836 21.70% 9
Domraider SAS 0 4,880 ▼ -4,880 84.33% 6
CommuniGal Communication Ltd. 29,243 4,977 10,170 ▼ -5,193 13.69% 13
Center of Ukrainian Internet Names (UKRNAMES) 11,268 4,182 9,415 ▼ -5,233 58.21% 10
Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co., Ltd 72,357 28,533 34,028 ▼ -5,495 36.03% 10
Zhengzhou Century Connect Electronic Technology Development Co., Ltd 62,576 8,639 14,289 ▼ -5,650 31.71% 7
Netregistry Domains Pty Ltd 1 5,750 ▼ -5,749 12.38% 7
Turkticaret.net Yazılım Hizmetleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. 131,020 26,899 32,929 ▼ -6,030 42.13% 11
Innovadeus Pvt. Ltd. 2,541 8,927 ▼ -6,386 39.57% 13
Dattatec Corp 90,551 14,959 21,765 ▼ -6,806 35.01% 6
TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown 536,328 73,912 80,846 ▼ -6,934 28.86% 11
! #1 Host Israel, Inc. 0 6,973 ▼ -6,973 67.14% 2
Deutsche Telekom AG 56,367 5,825 12,946 ▼ -7,121 20.37% 7
EnCirca, Inc. 7,853 2,050 9,233 ▼ -7,183 52.16% 18
Webagentur.at Internet Services GmbH 690 7,923 ▼ -7,233 73.93% 5
PSI-Japan, Inc. 8,869 2,703 10,026 ▼ -7,323 78.40% 13
Name121, Inc. 0 7,525 ▼ -7,525 72.54% 6

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.