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
Pheenix 14, LLC 0 203 ▼ -203 72.24% 3
Spartacus, LLC 0 203 ▼ -203 62.08% 6
Pheenix 59, LLC 0 204 ▼ -204 68.46% 3
Pheenix 12, LLC 0 205 ▼ -205 72.70% 3
Pheenix 70, LLC 0 205 ▼ -205 84.02% 3
Pheenix 78, LLC 0 205 ▼ -205 75.09% 3
Pheenix 91, LLC 0 205 ▼ -205 79.77% 3
Pheenix 97, LLC 0 205 ▼ -205 73.21% 3
Winston Churchill, LLC 0 205 ▼ -205 69.02% 3
Pheenix 15, LLC 0 207 ▼ -207 75.27% 3
Pheenix 44, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 78.20% 3
Pheenix 53, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 70.75% 3
Pheenix 58, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 72.47% 3
Pheenix 60, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 75.64% 3
Pheenix 96, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 78.20% 3
Pheenix 30, LLC 0 209 ▼ -209 73.59% 3
Pheenix 35, LLC 0 209 ▼ -209 76.56% 3
Pheenix 49, LLC 0 209 ▼ -209 78.57% 3
Pheenix 6, LLC 0 210 ▼ -210 77.78% 3
Honjo Masamune, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 67.85% 3
Pheenix 20, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 79.32% 3
Pheenix 21, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 71.04% 3
Pheenix 29, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 71.28% 3
Pheenix 73, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 73.01% 3
Pheenix 84, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 75.90% 3
Isaac Newton, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 66.88% 6
James Madison, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 63.66% 6
Name113, Inc. 0 212 ▼ -212 33.39% 6
Pheenix 34, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 67.52% 3
Pheenix 74, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 74.91% 3
Pheenix 77, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 73.61% 3
Pheenix 87, LLC 0 213 ▼ -213 75.53% 3
Vlad the Impaler, LLC 0 213 ▼ -213 71.48% 3
Charles Darwin, LLC 0 214 ▼ -214 67.30% 6
Pheenix 37, LLC 0 214 ▼ -214 73.54% 3
Pheenix 51, LLC 0 214 ▼ -214 76.98% 3
Pheenix 72, LLC 0 214 ▼ -214 76.98% 3
William Wallace, LLC 0 214 ▼ -214 71.57% 3
Nictrade Internet Identity Provider AB 0 215 ▼ -215 2.91% 5
Pheenix 41, LLC 0 215 ▼ -215 89.21% 3
Pheenix 79, LLC 0 215 ▼ -215 83.01% 3
Pheenix 90, LLC 0 215 ▼ -215 75.44% 3
Thomas Edison, LLC 0 215 ▼ -215 72.64% 3
Ulfberht, LLC 0 215 ▼ -215 73.38% 3
Zeus 888, LLC 0 215 ▼ -215 71.19% 3
Leif Ericson, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 69.01% 6
Pheenix 45, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 80.30% 3
Pheenix 57, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 80.00% 3
Zulfigar, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 72.48% 3
Hrunting, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 74.32% 3
Mahatma Gandhi, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 73.81% 3
Online Data Services Joint Stock Company 251 468 ▼ -217 24.11% 4
Pheenix 13, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 81.89% 3
Pheenix 18, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 75.87% 3
Pheenix 25, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 74.83% 3
Pheenix 4, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 76.95% 3
Pheenix 88, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 80.97% 3
#1 Internet Services International, Inc. dba 1ISI 3 221 ▼ -218 23.43% 5
Constantine the Great, LLC 0 218 ▼ -218 69.21% 6
Pheenix 5, LLC 0 218 ▼ -218 74.40% 3
Volusion, Inc. 118 336 ▼ -218 2.63% 3
Billy the Kid, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 70.87% 6
Name109, Inc. 0 219 ▼ -219 38.90% 7
Odysseus 888, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 65.57% 6
Omni 888, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 69.30% 6
Pheenix 100, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 79.93% 3
Pheenix 8, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 76.04% 3
Pheenix 9, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 76.31% 3
Pheenix 99, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 77.94% 3
Titus 888, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 66.16% 3
Pheenix 33, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 76.74% 3
Pheenix 56, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 74.16% 3
Pheenix 92, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 81.85% 3
Pheenix 47, LLC 0 222 ▼ -222 73.27% 3
Ramses II, LLC 0 222 ▼ -222 66.47% 6
Pheenix 26, LLC 0 223 ▼ -223 79.93% 3
Pheenix 43, LLC 0 223 ▼ -223 71.70% 3
Pheenix 50, LLC 0 223 ▼ -223 75.08% 3
Pheenix 39, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 80.00% 3
Pheenix 62, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 79.15% 3
Pheenix 75, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 79.72% 3
Pheenix 80, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 80.87% 3
Pheenix 94, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 82.96% 3
Richard the Lionheart 888, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 67.07% 6
Maximus, LLC 0 225 ▼ -225 71.66% 6
Pheenix 71, LLC 0 225 ▼ -225 78.13% 3
Thomas Jefferson, LLC 0 225 ▼ -225 69.66% 3
Buddha, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 73.38% 5
Pheenix 11, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 83.09% 3
Pheenix 32, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 79.58% 3
Stormbringer, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 74.83% 3
Abraham Lincoln, LLC 0 227 ▼ -227 90.08% 5
Pheenix 69, LLC 0 227 ▼ -227 79.65% 3
Pheenix 82, LLC 0 227 ▼ -227 79.37% 3
Pheenix 2, LLC 0 228 ▼ -228 81.14% 3
Pheenix 40, LLC 0 228 ▼ -228 86.36% 3
Pheenix 54, LLC 0 228 ▼ -228 81.43% 3
Joyeuse, LLC 0 229 ▼ -229 72.01% 3
Pheenix 67, LLC 0 229 ▼ -229 84.81% 3
Eric the Red, LLC 0 230 ▼ -230 68.66% 6

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.