Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over May 2016 – May 2026, and which lost them, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

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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

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Domains transferred

69.88M

May 2016 – May 2026

Busiest month

1.23M

Aug 2022

Both sides agree to

99.97%

17,704 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. 6,667,838 in / 913,873 out · family of 500

5.75M

Cloudflare, Inc. 1,804,993 in / 115,959 out

1.69M

Namecheap 3,666,280 in / 2,153,882 out · family of 2

1.51M

HOSTINGER operations, UAB 809,309 in / 160,577 out

648.73k

Dynadot Inc 1,884,264 in / 1,334,759 out · family of 24

549.51k

NameSilo, LLC 1,341,766 in / 811,297 out

530.47k

GoDaddy 11,049,588 in / 10,523,153 out · family of 4

526.44k

DomainAdministration.com, LLC 599,193 in / 134,437 out · family of 6

464.76k

Porkbun LLC 701,633 in / 238,560 out

463.07k

Amazon Registrar, Inc. 605,022 in / 145,018 out

460.00k

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 1,906,212 in / 4,057,327 out · family of 3

2.15M

eNom, LLC 992,207 in / 2,887,389 out

1.90M

TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 5,621,292 in / 7,439,425 out · family of 1,252

1.82M

DropExtra.com, LLC 14,449 in / 1,739,191 out · family of 516

1.72M

Newfold Digital 2,591,969 in / 3,689,793 out · family of 3

1.10M

PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 1,133,049 in / 1,945,109 out

812.06k

Xin Net Technology Corporation 581,956 in / 1,364,098 out

782.14k

eName Technology Co., Ltd. 527,402 in / 1,278,300 out

750.90k

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 244,092 in / 677,745 out

433.65k

IONOS SE 529,009 in / 897,983 out

368.97k

Showing 100 of 1,249 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
In2net Network Inc.	6,622	5,539	9,758	▼ -4,219	22.72%	17
The Registry at Info Avenue, LLC d/b/a Spirit Communications	10,329	1,965	6,212	▼ -4,247	28.06%	14
NHN JAPAN Corp.	–	527	4,849	▼ -4,322	86.06%	4
Cloud City, LLC	–	0	4,356	▼ -4,356	100.72%	257
NetEarth One Inc. d/b/a NetEarth	89,232	36,588	40,967	▼ -4,379	50.07%	381
Edomains LLC	10,811	1,388	5,801	▼ -4,413	66.50%	422
Freeparking Limited	1,470	1,621	6,034	▼ -4,413	7.64%	15
UK-2 Limited	1,453	1,596	6,090	▼ -4,494	54.69%	17
Cloud Boom, LLC	–	0	4,565	▼ -4,565	125.24%	257
GrepApps Technology Inc.	2,080	0	4,774	▼ -4,774	125.24%	384
Cloud Orchid, LLC	–	0	4,831	▼ -4,831	109.15%	257
Domraider SAS	–	0	4,880	▼ -4,880	84.33%	15
Cloud System, LLC	–	0	4,896	▼ -4,896	110.32%	257
Freeparking Domain Registrars, Inc.	–	508	5,429	▼ -4,921	21.52%	345
Center of Ukrainian Internet Names (UKRNAMES)	11,497	4,315	9,429	▼ -5,114	58.84%	305
Guangdong Nicenic Technology Co., Ltd. dba NiceNIC	7,028	2,542	8,141	▼ -5,599	17.27%	412
101domain GRS Limited	120,235	39,173	44,904	▼ -5,731	56.26%	594
Netregistry Domains Pty Ltd	–	1	5,750	▼ -5,749	12.38%	7
Turkticaret.net Yazılım Hizmetleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.	227,537	27,501	33,410	▼ -5,909	26.77%	394
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd.	96,722	31,825	38,183	▼ -6,358	40.49%	499
TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown	595,606	75,719	82,133	▼ -6,414	26.50%	382
Dattatec Corp	207,443	15,539	21,964	▼ -6,425	18.08%	135
Innovadeus Pvt. Ltd.	–	2,593	9,091	▼ -6,498	36.15%	339
CommuniGal Communication Ltd.	101,122	5,002	11,674	▼ -6,672	5.21%	412
! #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%	16
Webagentur.at Internet Services GmbH	–	690	7,923	▼ -7,233	73.93%	14
TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd.	68,031	19,455	26,945	▼ -7,490	11.14%	431
Name121, Inc.	–	0	7,525	▼ -7,525	72.54%	6
Everyones Internet, Ltd. dba SoftLayer	–	11,486	19,104	▼ -7,618	33.00%	5
PlanetDomain Pty Ltd	–	528	8,149	▼ -7,621	13.07%	7
Quantum Names LLC	50,884	4,944	12,667	▼ -7,723	17.44%	338
PSI-Japan, Inc.	8,995	2,775	10,594	▼ -7,819	82.34%	404
BB-Online UK Limited family of 3	9,580	3,853	11,835	▼ -7,982	124.60%	537
pair Networks, Inc. d/b/a pair Domains	66,675	8,074	16,068	▼ -7,994	25.37%	367
Alfena, LLC	–	49	8,261	▼ -8,212	160.58%	16
EnCirca, Inc.	19,342	2,344	10,892	▼ -8,548	44.21%	535
Pheenix, Inc.	–	24,866	33,545	▼ -8,679	81.59%	80
Alpnames Limited	–	12,985	21,831	▼ -8,846	1.11%	354
Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. (AIT)	26,348	3,568	12,531	▼ -8,963	25.90%	15
Vantage of Convergence (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd.	50,253	1,153	10,177	▼ -9,024	22.25%	355
Domainipr Limited	115,188	26	9,095	▼ -9,069	5.51%	379
Easyspace Limited	74,330	10,583	20,003	▼ -9,420	23.54%	428
Gabia, Inc.	598,260	39,193	48,995	▼ -9,802	14.41%	440
Backslap Domains, Inc.	–	89	9,966	▼ -9,877	177.43%	2
Name SRS AB	955,472	116,121	126,137	▼ -10,016	25.35%	420
ORANGE	6,591	898	11,053	▼ -10,155	47.70%	6
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH	26,897	11,474	21,770	▼ -10,296	73.31%	505
Zhengzhou Century Connect Electronic Technology Development Co., Ltd	88,102	15,872	26,262	▼ -10,390	28.92%	357
Dotname Korea Corp.	14,784	17,252	27,756	▼ -10,504	48.33%	472
Go Montenegro Domains, LLC	29,517	1,833	12,971	▼ -11,138	19.87%	479
Blue Razor Domains, LLC	37,215	1,812	12,985	▼ -11,173	17.43%	480
Go Australia Domains, LLC	30,605	1,854	13,337	▼ -11,483	20.19%	478
Rank USA, LLC	–	0	11,671	▼ -11,671	319.14%	13
Domdrill.com, LLC	–	0	11,835	▼ -11,835	301.84%	12
Go China Domains, LLC	30,509	1,835	13,690	▼ -11,855	20.15%	478
Chengdu Fly-Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	57,638	37,136	49,229	▼ -12,093	107.27%	364
BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC. (dba "NameJuice.com”)	18,687	251	12,460	▼ -12,209	20.28%	13
Go France Domains, LLC	32,262	1,854	14,424	▼ -12,570	20.67%	478
CCI REG S.A.	1,518	3,046	15,929	▼ -12,883	100.18%	386
Go Canada Domains, LLC	32,507	1,825	15,122	▼ -13,297	21.08%	478
IDC Frontier Inc.	12,619	2,813	16,296	▼ -13,483	63.17%	40
Commerce Island, LLC	–	0	14,463	▼ -14,463	400.42%	14
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	92,872	352	15,007	▼ -14,655	1.50%	1,109
Xiamen Nawang Technology Co., Ltd	56,453	9,798	24,514	▼ -14,716	9.70%	413
CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED	66,674	24,864	39,609	▼ -14,745	31.79%	417
Todaynic.com, Inc.	61,919	5,872	20,787	▼ -14,915	5.23%	425
NetArt Registrar Sp. z o.o.	34,496	3,196	18,196	▼ -15,000	23.39%	14
Vautron Rechenzentrum AG	216,827	82,844	98,768	▼ -15,924	53.40%	419
Click Registrar, LLC dba publicdomainregistry.com	–	0	16,505	▼ -16,505	17.51%	17
Foshan YiDong Network Co., LTD	4,205	793	17,341	▼ -16,548	16.56%	134
Net-Chinese Co., Ltd.	50,617	5,386	22,140	▼ -16,754	13.90%	521
NextName B.V. d/b/a RegistrarHub	27,614	17,078	34,146	▼ -17,068	87.68%	444
Danesco Trading Ltd.	36,949	13,956	31,728	▼ -17,772	43.40%	344
Hongkong Kouming International Limited	105,949	1,703	19,540	▼ -17,837	17.36%	381
NameSecure L.L.C.	50,439	1,014	18,955	▼ -17,941	17.64%	41
17 Domain 1, Limited family of 6	1,209	1,126	19,404	▼ -18,278	29.97%	2
Shanghai Yovole Networks, Inc.	3,004	1,392	21,854	▼ -20,462	28.05%	20
Namebay SAM	87,910	32,721	53,441	▼ -20,720	68.53%	293
NordNet SA	31,481	1,405	22,308	▼ -20,903	27.81%	253
GKG.NET, INC.	62,371	10,638	31,959	▼ -21,321	35.29%	65
Hostopia Canada Corp	76,160	8,811	30,444	▼ -21,633	21.37%	17
Hello Internet Corp.	84,993	15,096	37,347	▼ -22,251	44.62%	342
Guangdong JinWanBang Technology Investment Co., Ltd.	18,614	5,957	28,531	▼ -22,574	21.10%	10
Hebei Guoji Maoyi (Shanghai) LTD dba HebeiDomains.com	–	916	23,506	▼ -22,590	36.36%	2
NamePal.com, LLC	–	10,503	33,498	▼ -22,995	88.50%	296
Domainshype.com, LLC	7,834	7,966	32,601	▼ -24,635	107.52%	12
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER	233,316	24,633	50,280	▼ -25,647	20.72%	437
Ourdomains Limited	23,733	33,763	59,717	▼ -25,954	119.57%	344
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd	235,365	69,211	96,436	▼ -27,225	9.06%	412
Global Domain Name Trading Center Ltd	12,654	1	28,438	▼ -28,437	19.20%	2
Nominalia Internet S.L.	112,686	26,781	60,628	▼ -33,847	64.39%	26
DreamHost, LLC	751,963	137,706	171,956	▼ -34,250	38.85%	330
Nics Telekomunikasyon A.S.	486,974	109,823	144,792	▼ -34,969	44.08%	374
Net 4 India Limited	–	4,206	39,237	▼ -35,031	27.43%	61
Arsys Internet, S.L. dba NICLINE.COM	400,298	80,671	116,557	▼ -35,886	43.00%	22
DomainPeople, Inc.	207,361	23,861	63,273	▼ -39,412	26.33%	327
united-domains GmbH	597,539	71,812	112,672	▼ -40,860	28.00%	519
Super Registry Ltd family of 4	125,337	115,423	160,619	▼ -45,196	103.93%	473
BigRock Solutions Ltd.	200,896	61,201	106,914	▼ -45,713	42.17%	341

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 19 September 2026 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.