Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over May 2021 – 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 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
436.72k650.35k863.97k1.08M1.29MMay 2021Nov 2023May 2026
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Domains transferred
38.55M
May 2021 – May 2026
Busiest month
1.23M
Aug 2022
Both sides agree to
99.91%
33,664 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. 6,607,073 in / 912,699 out · family of 500
5.69M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,491,276 in / 105,217 out
1.39M
Namecheap 2,706,879 in / 1,554,644 out · family of 2
1.15M
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 762,280 in / 143,628 out
618.65k
Dynadot Inc 1,449,566 in / 1,075,640 out · family of 24
373.93k
Porkbun LLC 571,103 in / 213,473 out
357.63k
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 344,662 in / 22,026 out · family of 3
322.64k
315.86k
Squarespace Domains LLC 410,402 in / 126,609 out
283.79k
DomainAdministration.com, LLC 303,329 in / 79,340 out · family of 6
223.99k

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 632,551 in / 1,931,405 out · family of 3
1.30M
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 1,099,631 in / 2,393,479 out · family of 3
1.29M
eNom, LLC 208,143 in / 1,272,865 out
1.06M
Tucows 783,561 in / 1,817,670 out · family of 3
1.03M
DropExtra.com, LLC 8,328 in / 982,936 out · family of 516
974.61k
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 2,324,376 in / 3,277,517 out · family of 1,252
953.14k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 93,929 in / 676,979 out
583.05k
499.80k
410.95k
Squarespace Domains II LLC 542,722 in / 944,602 out
401.88k
625 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.