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.

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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

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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

Hefei Juming Network Technology Co., Ltd 659,479 in / 343,621 out

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

PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 461,157 in / 960,956 out

499.80k

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 107,172 in / 518,119 out

410.95k

Squarespace Domains II LLC 542,722 in / 944,602 out

401.88k

Showing 25 of 625 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
Cloud Yuqu LLC	279,873	8,103	124,384	▼ -116,281	39.07%	2
IONOS SE	5,961,276	260,314	380,500	▼ -120,186	10.75%	465
OnlineNIC, Inc.	186,600	26,673	147,908	▼ -121,235	28.67%	445
Mesh Digital Limited	676,732	26,361	150,888	▼ -124,527	18.13%	469
Gandi SAS	1,035,354	126,114	259,369	▼ -133,255	27.40%	573
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	262,061	26,723	165,346	▼ -138,623	20.09%	514
FBS Inc.	8,060	265	139,390	▼ -139,125	42.97%	438
InterNetX GmbH	1,187,297	150,086	324,334	▼ -174,248	32.79%	520
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	1,369,654	264,503	440,431	▼ -175,928	39.44%	440
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd.	77,823	16,862	206,178	▼ -189,316	43.79%	398
Bluehost Inc.	1,247,774	96,746	307,870	▼ -211,124	16.80%	315
Epik LLC	201,972	261,663	472,829	▼ -211,166	90.88%	449
DNSPod, Inc.	975,790	364,557	575,739	▼ -211,182	65.09%	375
eName Technology Co., Ltd.	519,860	63,354	356,322	▼ -292,968	60.53%	39
Name.com, Inc. family of 6	2,706,867	189,165	494,302	▼ -305,137	25.25%	516
Squarespace Domains II LLC	7,867,799	542,722	944,602	▼ -401,880	15.32%	437
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	10,531,356	107,172	518,119	▼ -410,947	5.93%	466
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	3,501,707	461,157	960,956	▼ -499,799	27.12%	464
Xin Net Technology Corporation	905,215	93,929	676,979	▼ -583,050	39.65%	428
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com family of 1,252	4,454,475	2,324,376	3,277,517	▼ -953,141	87.27%	312
DropExtra.com, LLC family of 516	448,864	8,328	982,936	▼ -974,608	72.98%	51
Tucows family of 3	9,945,125	783,561	1,817,670	▼ -1,034,109	22.07%	592
eNom, LLC	2,925,070	208,143	1,272,865	▼ -1,064,722	29.98%	517
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) family of 3	6,204,615	1,099,631	2,393,479	▼ -1,293,848	36.98%	447
Newfold Digital family of 3	6,974,570	632,551	1,931,405	▼ -1,298,854	24.31%	474

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 17 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.