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 76, LLC 0 231 ▼ -231 82.50% 3
Pheenix 31, LLC 0 232 ▼ -232 81.12% 3
Pheenix 46, LLC 0 232 ▼ -232 90.63% 3
Socrates 888, LLC 0 233 ▼ -233 73.50% 6
Name111, Inc. 0 235 ▼ -235 37.84% 6
Annam, LLC 0 236 ▼ -236 84.29% 5
Plato 888, LLC 0 236 ▼ -236 71.52% 6
Joan of Arc, LLC 0 237 ▼ -237 72.48% 6
Theseus 888, LLC 0 237 ▼ -237 68.30% 3
Wild Bill Hickok, LLC 0 237 ▼ -237 73.37% 3
Pheenix 42, LLC 0 238 ▼ -238 82.93% 3
Peter the Great, LLC 0 239 ▼ -239 75.16% 6
Pheenix 17, LLC 0 239 ▼ -239 85.66% 3
Pheenix 3, LLC 0 239 ▼ -239 78.36% 3
Pheenix 48, LLC 0 239 ▼ -239 82.70% 3
Henan Weichuang Network Technology Co. Ltd. 83 323 ▼ -240 7.64% 2
Arthur Pendragon, LLC 0 241 ▼ -241 84.86% 6
Hercules 888, LLC 0 241 ▼ -241 77.24% 5
Pheenix 24, LLC 0 241 ▼ -241 82.82% 3
La Tizone, LLC 0 243 ▼ -243 78.64% 3
Pheenix 10, LLC 0 243 ▼ -243 75.00% 3
Green Destiny, LLC 0 245 ▼ -245 68.63% 3
Leonidas, LLC 0 245 ▼ -245 81.13% 6
Pheenix 38, LLC 0 245 ▼ -245 84.78% 3
Confucius, LLC 0 246 ▼ -246 72.57% 6
Perseus 888, LLC 0 246 ▼ -246 73.87% 6
BrandNames.com SARL 221 468 ▼ -247 120.03% 6
Poseidon 888, LLC 0 247 ▼ -247 68.99% 6
Sir Lancelot du Lac, LLC 0 247 ▼ -247 72.01% 6
Brennercom Limited 2 250 ▼ -248 189.47% 2
Excalibur, LLC 0 249 ▼ -249 70.54% 3
Pheenix 27, LLC 0 250 ▼ -250 86.81% 3
Tan Tran, LLC 0 250 ▼ -250 76.69% 3
Galileo Galilei, LLC 0 251 ▼ -251 75.60% 5
Pheenix 55, LLC 0 252 ▼ -252 77.78% 3
April Sea Corporation Company Limited 15,907 0 255 ▼ -255 0.32% 3
Pheenix 16, LLC 0 256 ▼ -256 92.42% 3
Dainam, LLC 0 257 ▼ -257 87.41% 6
Apollo 888, LLC 0 258 ▼ -258 92.47% 6
Tool Domains Ltd dba Edoms.com 3,962 0 258 ▼ -258 6.51% 12
Aristotle 888, LLC 0 259 ▼ -259 89.00% 3
Ares 888, LLC 0 260 ▼ -260 76.02% 6
Achilles 888, LLC 0 262 ▼ -262 92.25% 6
Benjamin Franklin 888, LLC 0 263 ▼ -263 84.84% 6
Mailinh, LLC 0 263 ▼ -263 80.18% 3
Zhengzhou Business Technology Co., Ltd. 0 269 ▼ -269 16.12% 2
Kheweul.com SA 2,096 340 610 ▼ -270 22.24% 5
Internetters Limited 27 298 ▼ -271 1.82% 6
Radu Damian, LLC 0 275 ▼ -275 90.76% 6
Name108, Inc. 0 277 ▼ -277 39.63% 6
Seymour Domains, LLC 2 302 ▼ -300 101.00% 2
Onpassive Technologies L.L.C 0 302 ▼ -302 308.16% 2
Name.cc Inc 0 319 ▼ -319 23.13% 2
Networking4all B.V. 398 723 ▼ -325 9.12% 12
DotAlliance Inc. 1,313 67 393 ▼ -326 13.16% 10
rockenstein AG 2,715 182 509 ▼ -327 18.81% 7
DomainName.com, Inc. 24 355 ▼ -331 7.60% 5
Jiangxi Nanshi Information Service Company Limited 0 335 ▼ -335 96.82% 2
Hu Yi Global Information Hong Kong Limited 1,678 2,016 ▼ -338 49.36% 4
Agrinoon Inc 0 353 ▼ -353 24.46% 2
Virtual Registrar, Inc. 90 449 ▼ -359 9.19% 5
DNS:NET Internet Service GmbH 85 448 ▼ -363 17.39% 2
Registrar Manager Inc. 10 385 ▼ -375 286.23% 2
Internet NAYANA Inc. 333 711 ▼ -378 13.28% 3
SaveMoreNames.com Inc. 0 384 ▼ -384 300.00% 2
Tuonome.it Srl d/b/a APIsrs.com 3,678 277 666 ▼ -389 18.56% 9
Intersolved-FL.com, Inc. 0 390 ▼ -390 59.36% 4
Intersolved-HI.com, Inc. 0 392 ▼ -392 57.99% 4
Intersolved-TN.com, Inc. 0 392 ▼ -392 65.22% 3
GoName-TX.com, Inc. 0 393 ▼ -393 61.41% 4
Intersolved-TX.com, Inc. 0 395 ▼ -395 64.33% 3
Globis LLC 1 400 ▼ -399 6.60% 3
GoName-WA.com, Inc. 0 401 ▼ -401 63.05% 4
Zhengzhou Zitian Network Technology Co., Ltd. 177 578 ▼ -401 6.70% 2
GoName-TN.com, Inc. 0 411 ▼ -411 76.54% 3
Intersolved-WA.com Inc. 0 418 ▼ -418 66.24% 3
GoName-HI.com, Inc. 0 428 ▼ -428 67.51% 3
NameStream.com, Inc. 0 439 ▼ -439 304.86% 2
GoName-FL.com, Inc. 0 453 ▼ -453 67.31% 3
Ekados, Inc., d/b/a groundregistry.com 46 358 814 ▼ -456 129.93% 4
World Biz Domains, LLC 33 498 ▼ -465 52.32% 6
Super Name World, LLC 37 0 473 ▼ -473 503.19% 2
Domus Enterprises LLC dba DOMUS 3 479 ▼ -476 5.03% 2
Domainclub.com, LLC 11,664 78 560 ▼ -482 2.52% 4
Abansys & Hostytec, S.L. 125 608 ▼ -483 127.26% 2
World4You Internet Services GmbH 65,426 8,727 9,212 ▼ -485 27.42% 2
Imperial Registrations, Inc. 2,253 616 1,106 ▼ -490 67.80% 13
Aceville Pte. Ltd. 29,495 1,083 1,581 ▼ -498 3.39% 9
SiliconHouse.Net Pvt Ltd. 498 1,001 ▼ -503 8.45% 3
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd 339,994 111,101 111,623 ▼ -522 37.40% 14
Chengdu Century Oriental Network Communication Co., Ltd. 4,093 6,396 6,920 ▼ -524 68.22% 2
DOMAIN ORIENTAL LIMITED 1 527 ▼ -526 2.58% 2
Guizhou Zhongyu Zhike Network Technology Co., Ltd. 11,243 162 697 ▼ -535 7.64% 2
Namware.com, LLC 0 536 ▼ -536 462.07% 2
Anytime Sites, LLC 32 0 541 ▼ -541 505.61% 6
Blue Fractal, LLC 43 0 558 ▼ -558 416.42% 6
Big Domain Shop, LLC 58 0 574 ▼ -574 415.94% 2
Alice's Registry, Inc. 280 856 ▼ -576 51.68% 5
Go Full House, LLC 34 0 582 ▼ -582 418.71% 2
Mighty Bay, LLC 44 0 582 ▼ -582 497.44% 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.