Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which new gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over Apr 2016 – Apr 2026, and which lost them, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

Registrars combined into families individual accreditations

Domains transferred by month, Apr 2016 – Apr 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.

Apr 2016 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
066,500133.00k199.50k266.00kApr 2016Apr 2021Apr 2026
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Domains transferred
3.21M
Apr 2016 – Apr 2026
Busiest month
247.02k
May 2018
Both sides agree to
99.15%
27,371 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 Apr 2016 – Apr 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 705,875 in / 328,863 out · family of 3
377.01k
Cloudflare, Inc. 199,572 in / 8,477 out
191.10k
Porkbun LLC 125,726 in / 56,174 out
69,552
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 55,282 in / 6,709 out · family of 11
48,573
Dynadot Inc 87,984 in / 58,102 out · family of 19
29,882
MarkMonitor Inc. 35,617 in / 12,074 out
23,543
DNSPod, Inc. 37,043 in / 15,775 out
21,268
Key-Systems 77,051 in / 58,437 out · family of 2
18,614
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. 40,127 in / 21,775 out · family of 1
18,352
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE 20,846 in / 2,536 out
18,310

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.

233.13k
GoDaddy 230,438 in / 319,918 out · family of 4
89,480
Tucows 98,765 in / 152,522 out · family of 3
53,757
Sav.com, LLC 35,912 in / 83,341 out · family of 51
47,429
Minds and Machines LLC 1 in / 46,588 out
46,587
Squarespace Domains II LLC 71,692 in / 118,185 out
46,493
Newfold Digital 17,236 in / 55,079 out · family of 3
37,843
eNom, LLC 30,895 in / 66,851 out
35,956
449 registrars and families

Showing 49 of 449 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar Domains In Out Net Turnover TLDs
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd 10,019 2,380 4,318 ▼ -1,938 36.79% 398
Virtualia LLC 1,663 0 1,964 ▼ -1,964 53.97% 397
Reserved for billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 292 2,478 ▼ -2,186 3.04% 834
Beijing Innovative Linkage Software Service Co. Ltd 14 2,210 ▼ -2,196 5.65% 13
IP Mirror Pte Ltd dba IP MIRROR 303 2,525 ▼ -2,222 31.02% 441
Focus IP, Inc. dba Tracer 965 3,447 ▼ -2,482 74.72% 509
Edomains LLC 3,107 415 3,257 ▼ -2,842 64.81% 410
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd 219,707 6,270 9,394 ▼ -3,124 7.11% 502
Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc 295,961 3,905 7,063 ▼ -3,158 0.75% 450
Namecheap family of 2 10,179,032 211,775 214,965 ▼ -3,190 4.19% 478
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. 11,092 1,869 5,153 ▼ -3,284 11.10% 484
Zhengzhou Zitian Network Technology Co., Ltd. 0 3,306 ▼ -3,306 79.20% 24
Leascend Technology Co., Ltd. 124 3,560 ▼ -3,436 16.37% 103
FBS Inc. 518 682 4,259 ▼ -3,577 3.76% 424
Xin Net Technology Corporation 131,989 11,489 15,074 ▼ -3,585 7.66% 417
EU Technology (HK) Limited 12 3,737 ▼ -3,725 102.26% 351
Knet Registrar Co., Ltd 81,925 236 4,128 ▼ -3,892 2.84% 1
Gandi SAS 189,087 40,361 44,285 ▼ -3,924 26.93% 556
Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd. 7,082 541 4,523 ▼ -3,982 10.76% 194
GrepApps Technology Inc. 1,368 0 4,107 ▼ -4,107 107.74% 376
Zhengzhou Century Connect Electronic Technology Development Co., Ltd 25,530 7,322 11,973 ▼ -4,651 16.40% 351
Cronon GmbH 166,934 15,747 20,842 ▼ -5,095 20.03% 400
Bizcn.com, Inc. 10,482 661 7,623 ▼ -6,962 3.21% 365
MAFF Inc. family of 3 143 7,108 ▼ -6,965 61.91% 99
BB-Online UK Limited family of 2 1,103 221 7,237 ▼ -7,016 396.28% 521
Domain Science Kutatási Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság 132,088 354 7,413 ▼ -7,059 5.29% 401
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER 93,621 5,350 13,618 ▼ -8,268 15.47% 423
Ourdomains Limited 102 10,640 ▼ -10,538 51.88% 326
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 7,669,786 1,605 12,540 ▼ -10,935 0.18% 452
1API GmbH 100,774 42,133 55,415 ▼ -13,282 48.84% 505
101domain GRS Limited 44,311 7,020 20,858 ▼ -13,838 31.71% 577
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar 89,781 335 14,891 ▼ -14,556 3.27% 1,094
West263 International Limited 1,227,655 22,097 36,832 ▼ -14,735 2.01% 397
Alpnames Limited 3,338 18,364 ▼ -15,026 0.70% 348
Mesh Digital Limited 132,229 9,258 26,039 ▼ -16,781 21.02% 455
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd. 6,918 2,086 19,287 ▼ -17,201 7.05% 387
united-domains GmbH 172,353 10,837 30,460 ▼ -19,623 22.46% 503
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 659,673 28,335 55,233 ▼ -26,898 6.46% 450
Name.com, Inc. family of 3 641,722 25,251 57,690 ▼ -32,439 12.92% 500
eNom, LLC 301,312 30,895 66,851 ▼ -35,956 17.70% 503
Newfold Digital family of 3 576,392 17,236 55,079 ▼ -37,843 9.91% 461
Squarespace Domains II LLC 680,723 71,692 118,185 ▼ -46,493 15.73% 428
Minds and Machines LLC 1 46,588 ▼ -46,587 93.96% 56
Sav.com, LLC family of 51 233,424 35,912 83,341 ▼ -47,429 9.97% 457
Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co., Ltd 67,216 18,132 66,090 ▼ -47,958 78.88% 383
Tucows family of 3 1,070,589 98,765 152,522 ▼ -53,757 22.19% 575
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 627,227 126,958 191,537 ▼ -64,579 6.68% 430
GoDaddy family of 4 7,022,134 230,438 319,918 ▼ -89,480 7.84% 494
SHENZHEN EIMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD 7,861 240,989 ▼ -233,128 77.94% 359

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 April 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.