Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over May 2025 – 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 2025 – 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 2025 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
486.12k563.72k641.32k718.92k796.52kMay 2025Nov 2025May 2026
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Domains transferred
8.06M
May 2025 – May 2026
Busiest month
775.11k
Mar 2026
Both sides agree to
99.91%
7,269 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 2025 – May 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 1,271,264 in / 340,023 out · family of 500
931.24k
Cloudflare, Inc. 480,025 in / 32,785 out
447.24k
Namecheap 811,474 in / 474,645 out · family of 2
336.83k
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 305,148 in / 21,963 out · family of 3
283.19k
Wix.com Ltd. 274,834 in / 79,211 out
195.62k
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 229,333 in / 80,998 out
148.34k
Porkbun LLC 170,043 in / 73,249 out
96,794
GoDaddy 1,066,102 in / 975,326 out · family of 4
90,776
Realtime Register B.V. 129,477 in / 57,148 out
72,329
Eranet International Limited 73,584 in / 7,681 out
65,903

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 67,196 in / 517,477 out · family of 3
450.28k
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 103,642 in / 479,848 out · family of 3
376.21k
eNom, LLC 28,986 in / 218,547 out
189.56k
Tucows 177,910 in / 361,524 out · family of 3
183.61k
Sav.com, LLC 47,679 in / 212,261 out · family of 51
164.58k
eName Technology Co., Ltd. 8,084 in / 171,530 out
163.45k
Squarespace Domains II LLC 5,532 in / 166,108 out
160.58k
DropExtra.com, LLC 3,778 in / 155,901 out · family of 516
152.12k
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 218,080 in / 363,968 out · family of 1,252
145.89k
135.50k
535 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.