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.

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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

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

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 242,479 in / 664,980 out

422.50k

IONOS SE 473,844 in / 844,361 out

370.52k

Showing 14 of 1,214 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
Name.com, Inc. family of 6	2,020,828	605,436	860,703	▼ -255,267	72.55%	16
Bizcn.com, Inc.	138,891	97,725	425,985	▼ -328,260	48.00%	11
Bluehost Inc.	1,247,710	355,509	705,245	▼ -349,736	44.04%	10
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) family of 3	4,310,026	3,144,990	3,512,860	▼ -367,870	81.61%	12
IONOS SE	5,208,210	473,844	844,361	▼ -370,517	23.54%	14
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	2,793,086	242,479	664,980	▼ -422,501	24.13%	14
eName Technology Co., Ltd.	506,839	496,173	1,245,829	▼ -749,656	45.21%	6
Xin Net Technology Corporation	769,286	569,934	1,348,687	▼ -778,753	40.15%	12
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	2,846,906	1,104,641	1,889,554	▼ -784,913	59.51%	14
Newfold Digital family of 3	6,404,973	2,574,651	3,633,199	▼ -1,058,548	55.43%	13
DropExtra.com, LLC family of 516	448,629	14,325	1,739,179	▼ -1,724,854	129.11%	6
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com family of 1,252	4,452,983	5,620,999	7,439,252	▼ -1,818,253	199.67%	8
eNom, LLC	2,644,014	961,815	2,820,633	▼ -1,858,818	32.32%	14
Tucows family of 3	8,876,878	1,806,394	3,902,355	▼ -2,095,961	50.05%	17

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.