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Registrar and registry changes

Renames, terminations, platform migrations, changes of registry operator and backend transitions — the visible traces of mergers, acquisitions and reassignments in the new-gTLD industry.

These are observations, not announcements. ICANN publishes no machine-readable record of mergers or registry assignments, so each row below is simply a case where what ICANN or IANA publishes today differs from what it published before. A rename usually follows a corporate change but can also be a rebrand; a registrar's RDAP platform moving to another company's infrastructure is strong evidence of an acquisition, but it is still evidence rather than confirmation.
Changes detected
1,307
since collection began
Flagged for review
9
may affect a curated grouping
Most common
Registry operator changed
1,289 occurrences
Filter: all Registry operator changed 1,289 Registrar platform moved 9 Accreditation status 6 Registrar renamed 3
DetectedEntityChangeFromTo
16 Oct 2026 .zw Registry operator changed Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Au… Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .zuerich Registry operator changed Kanton Zürich (Canton of Zurich) Generic
16 Oct 2026 .zone Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .zm Registry operator changed Zambia Information and Communications Techn… Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .zip Registry operator changed Charleston Road Registry Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .zero Registry operator changed Amazon Registry Services, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .zara Registry operator changed Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (INDITEX, … Generic
16 Oct 2026 .zappos Registry operator changed Amazon Registry Services, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .za Registry operator changed ZA Domain Name Authority Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .yun Registry operator changed Beijing Qihu Keji Co., Ltd. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .yt Registry operator changed Association Française pour le Nommage Inter… Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .youtube Registry operator changed Charleston Road Registry Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .you Registry operator changed Amazon Registry Services, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .yokohama Registry operator changed GMO Registry, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .yoga Registry operator changed Registry Services, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .yodobashi Registry operator changed YODOBASHI CAMERA CO.,LTD. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .ye Registry operator changed TeleYemen Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .yandex Registry operator changed YANDEX LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .yamaxun Registry operator changed Amazon Registry Services, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .yahoo Registry operator changed Yahoo Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .yachts Registry operator changed XYZ.COM LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .xyz Registry operator changed XYZ.COM LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .xxx Registry operator changed ICM Registry LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .xin Registry operator changed Elegant Leader Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .xihuan Registry operator changed Beijing Qihu Keji Co., Ltd. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .xerox Registry operator changed Xerox DNHC LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .xbox Registry operator changed Microsoft Corporation Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wtf Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wtc Registry operator changed World Trade Centers Association, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .ws Registry operator changed Government of Samoa Ministry of Foreign Aff… Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .wow Registry operator changed Amazon Registry Services, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .world Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .works Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .work Registry operator changed Registry Services, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .woodside Registry operator changed Woodside Petroleum Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wme Registry operator changed William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .winners Registry operator changed The TJX Companies, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wine Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .windows Registry operator changed Microsoft Corporation Generic
16 Oct 2026 .win Registry operator changed First Registry Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .williamhill Registry operator changed William Hill Organization Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wiki Registry operator changed Registry Services, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wien Registry operator changed punkt.wien GmbH Generic
16 Oct 2026 .whoswho Registry operator changed Who's Who Registry Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wf Registry operator changed Association Française pour le Nommage Inter… Country Code
16 Oct 2026 .weir Registry operator changed Weir Group IP Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .weibo Registry operator changed Sina Corporation Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wedding Registry operator changed Registry Services, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wed Registry operator changed Emergency Back-End Registry Operator Progra… Generic
16 Oct 2026 .website Registry operator changed Radix Technologies Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .weber Registry operator changed Saint-Gobain Weber SA Generic
16 Oct 2026 .webcam Registry operator changed dot Webcam Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .web Registry operator changed VeriSign, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .weatherchannel Registry operator changed The Weather Company, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .weather Registry operator changed The Weather Company, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .watches Registry operator changed Identity Digital Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .watch Registry operator changed Binky Moon, LLC Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wanggou Registry operator changed Amazon Registry Services, Inc. Generic
16 Oct 2026 .wang Registry operator changed Zodiac Wang Limited Generic
16 Oct 2026 .walter Registry operator changed Sandvik AB Generic

Why history is not lost when this happens

Every time series on this site is keyed on an identifier that survives a corporate change: registrar figures on the ICANN-assigned IANA number, TLD figures on the string itself. Neither is reissued when a company is acquired or renamed, so a rename moves the label without disturbing a single historical row.

What a rename would otherwise destroy is the knowledge that it happened, and the previous value. That is what this page is for. Where an accreditation's domains are genuinely moved to a different accreditation, the volume legitimately leaves one row and appears in another — the combined registrar view is the way to read that as one company rather than two unrelated movements.

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 June 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.