Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over May 2023 – 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 2023 – 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 2023 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
473.85k554.75k635.64k716.53k797.42kMay 2023Nov 2024May 2026
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Domains transferred
22.37M
May 2023 – May 2026
Busiest month
775.11k
Mar 2026
Both sides agree to
99.83%
38,938 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 2023 – May 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 3,911,517 in / 846,788 out · family of 500
3.06M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,177,004 in / 81,380 out
1.10M
Namecheap 2,017,127 in / 1,058,049 out · family of 2
959.08k
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 707,631 in / 128,585 out
579.05k
Dynadot Inc 961,079 in / 600,194 out · family of 24
360.89k
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 344,662 in / 22,026 out · family of 3
322.64k
Porkbun LLC 446,024 in / 154,773 out
291.25k
232.28k
DomainAdministration.com, LLC 281,471 in / 60,529 out · family of 6
220.94k
Wix.com Ltd. 382,219 in / 161,365 out
220.85k

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.

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 483,710 in / 1,341,685 out · family of 3
857.98k
Newfold Digital 239,945 in / 1,055,854 out · family of 3
815.91k
Squarespace Domains II LLC 101,085 in / 817,870 out
716.79k
eNom, LLC 109,069 in / 707,942 out
598.87k
Tucows 478,133 in / 1,015,404 out · family of 3
537.27k
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 676,948 in / 1,206,561 out · family of 1,252
529.61k
DropExtra.com, LLC 6,080 in / 487,882 out · family of 516
481.80k
298.80k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 71,782 in / 351,388 out
279.61k
Sav.com, LLC 215,914 in / 470,770 out · family of 51
254.86k
577 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.