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
Shanghai Oweb Network Co., Ltd 0 15 ▼ -15 78.95% 2
Beijing Midwest Taian Technology Services Ltd. 0 19 ▼ -19 57.58% 2
Qinghai Yunnet Electronics Technology Co., Ltd 5 29 ▼ -24 7.07% 2
Minds and Machines Registrar UK Limited 1 27 ▼ -26 9.49% 5
Kaunas University of Technology 1,027 285 312 ▼ -27 49.71% 4
2030138 Ontario Inc. dba NamesBeyond.com and dba GoodLuckDomain.com 804 834 ▼ -30 8.49% 15
Domainmonster.com, Inc. 0 30 ▼ -30 37.97% 2
Astutium Limited 226 257 ▼ -31 9.23% 11
China Organizational Name Service Center of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform 0 31 ▼ -31 26.05% 2
Pacific Online Inc. 0 32 ▼ -32 22.07% 6
Humeia Corporation 89 122 ▼ -33 6.72% 5
HLJ E-Link Network Co., Ltd 11 47 ▼ -36 50.00% 8
Oi Internet S/A 0 38 ▼ -38 0.59% 2
Domain Guardians, Inc. 0 39 ▼ -39 3.77% 2
Samjung Data Service Co., Ltd 1,650 88 128 ▼ -40 8.64% 3
BatDomains.com Ltd. 7 48 ▼ -41 33.95% 2
Name122, Inc. 0 41 ▼ -41 26.45% 5
Nimzo 98, LLC 1 43 ▼ -42 104.76% 4
Larsen Data ApS 34 77 ▼ -43 9.99% 10
Own Identity, Inc. 3,052 1,293 1,336 ▼ -43 61.27% 13
Salestrar EOOD 1,179 0 48 ▼ -48 4.07% 9
Fujian Litian Network Technology Co.,Ltd 10 62 ▼ -52 7.26% 6
SEO Domains EOOD 1,112 0 54 ▼ -54 4.83% 9
Infocom Network Ltd. 76 133 ▼ -57 0.96% 2
Xiamen Xin click Network Group Co.,Ltd 0 57 ▼ -57 44.19% 3
1 Domain Source Ltd. dba Domain One Source, Inc. 0 64 ▼ -64 24.06% 2
Mobile Name Services, Inc. 0 69 ▼ -69 168.29% 6
Sipence, Inc. 0 71 ▼ -71 68.93% 5
Cheap Domains Pte Ltd. 14 86 ▼ -72 131.58% 2
Vedacore.com, Inc. 0 77 ▼ -77 81.05% 3
Vivid Domains, Inc. 5 82 ▼ -77 2.23% 2
Web Site Source, Inc. 15 92 ▼ -77 4.15% 4
humbly LLC 17 0 78 ▼ -78 130.00% 2
Domain Monkeys, LLC 0 79 ▼ -79 19.22% 4
Web Business, LLC 0 79 ▼ -79 29.15% 2
Marcaria International LLC 25,825 5,083 5,167 ▼ -84 35.52% 16
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 20 105 ▼ -85 0.02% 15
Brandma.co Limited 433 519 ▼ -86 183.08% 10
Good Luck Internet Services PVT, LTD. 0 88 ▼ -88 30.56% 4
Akamai Technologies, Inc. 900 989 ▼ -89 191.39% 2
Zname Ltd 4,646 2 91 ▼ -89 0.64% 2
Costrar EOOD 1,162 0 91 ▼ -91 7.83% 12
Purity Names Incorporated 30 125 ▼ -95 29.87% 7
SecureBackorder EOOD 1,445 0 97 ▼ -97 6.71% 11
EastNames Inc. 0 100 ▼ -100 128.21% 2
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. 0 106 ▼ -106 30.72% 2
Names In Motion, Inc. 6 115 ▼ -109 51.71% 4
Open System Ltda - Me 1 127 ▼ -126 35.96% 2
ChinaNet Technology (SuZhou) CO., LTD 136 269 ▼ -133 18.38% 8
Name104, Inc. 0 134 ▼ -134 37.43% 6
PE Overseas Limited 247 263 400 ▼ -137 255.98% 2
Ednit Software Private Limited 153 257 399 ▼ -142 106.32% 4
Name118, Inc. 0 146 ▼ -146 43.84% 6
Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co., Ltd 0 148 ▼ -148 6.03% 2
Domerati, Inc. 0 149 ▼ -149 116.41% 3
GoName.com, Inc 0 149 ▼ -149 22.75% 2
Name106, Inc. 0 150 ▼ -150 34.40% 6
Netdorm, Inc. dba DnsExit.com 4,929 1,123 1,273 ▼ -150 35.35% 8
Beijing HuaRui Wireless Technology Co., Ltd 1 160 ▼ -159 1.73% 1
Name107, Inc. 0 162 ▼ -162 38.48% 6
Uber Australia E1 Pty Ltd 0 163 ▼ -163 1.62% 2
Name115, Inc. 0 170 ▼ -170 35.94% 6
Discount Domains Ltd. 18 189 ▼ -171 8.23% 5
Gesloten Domain N.V. 0 173 ▼ -173 135.16% 2
Pheenix 85, LLC 0 173 ▼ -173 83.98% 3
Name114, Inc. 0 174 ▼ -174 37.66% 6
Pheenix 28, LLC 0 179 ▼ -179 70.75% 3
Pheenix 65, LLC 0 179 ▼ -179 75.21% 3
Name110, Inc. 0 180 ▼ -180 34.35% 6
Name116, Inc. 0 181 ▼ -181 37.55% 6
Swedish Domains AB 28 212 ▼ -184 6.84% 4
Name120, Inc. 0 186 ▼ -186 38.51% 6
Pheenix 22, LLC 0 188 ▼ -188 72.31% 3
Pheenix 66, LLC 0 188 ▼ -188 68.86% 3
Pheenix 98, LLC 0 188 ▼ -188 75.81% 3
Xiamen Yuwang Technology Co., LTD 0 189 ▼ -189 81.82% 2
Pheenix 19, LLC 0 190 ▼ -190 67.38% 3
Pheenix 7, LLC 0 190 ▼ -190 79.83% 3
Pheenix 89, LLC 0 190 ▼ -190 78.51% 3
Name119, Inc. 0 191 ▼ -191 39.79% 6
Pheenix 23, LLC 0 191 ▼ -191 76.10% 3
Pheenix 52, LLC 0 191 ▼ -191 77.64% 3
Pheenix 83, LLC 0 191 ▼ -191 75.79% 3
Pheenix 93, LLC 0 193 ▼ -193 77.20% 3
Pheenix 61, LLC 0 195 ▼ -195 71.43% 3
Pheenix 68, LLC 0 195 ▼ -195 66.78% 3
Name112, Inc. 0 197 ▼ -197 35.69% 6
Pheenix 36, LLC 0 197 ▼ -197 73.78% 3
Heavens Will, LLC 0 198 ▼ -198 69.23% 3
Pheenix 81, LLC 0 198 ▼ -198 74.16% 3
Pheenix 63, LLC 0 199 ▼ -199 79.92% 3
Pheenix 86, LLC 0 199 ▼ -199 73.43% 3
Leonardo da Vinci, LLC 0 200 ▼ -200 64.72% 6
Pheenix 95, LLC 0 200 ▼ -200 77.82% 3
Registrar R01 LLC 4,389 2,085 2,285 ▼ -200 13.82% 4
Pheenix 64, LLC 0 201 ▼ -201 73.36% 3
Erwin Rommel, LLC 0 202 ▼ -202 71.38% 6
Dalai Lama, LLC 0 203 ▼ -203 71.99% 6
Instant Labs, Inc. 743 1 204 ▼ -203 8.28% 7
Pheenix 1, LLC 0 203 ▼ -203 71.99% 3

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.