Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which legacy gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over Apr 2016 – Apr 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, 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
275.80k527.25k778.71k1.03M1.28MApr 2016Apr 2021Apr 2026
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Domains transferred
66.38M
Apr 2016 – Apr 2026
Busiest month
1.21M
Aug 2022
Both sides agree to
99.99%
5,845 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.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 6,534,676 in / 882,401 out · family of 500
5.65M
Namecheap 3,375,802 in / 1,892,339 out · family of 2
1.48M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,552,768 in / 104,674 out
1.45M
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 768,178 in / 136,613 out
631.57k
GoDaddy 10,830,571 in / 10,201,698 out · family of 4
628.87k
NameSilo, LLC 1,273,447 in / 749,573 out
523.87k
Dynadot Inc 1,776,527 in / 1,264,980 out · family of 24
511.55k
DomainAdministration.com, LLC 615,956 in / 133,111 out · family of 6
482.85k
Amazon Registrar, Inc. 589,119 in / 138,903 out
450.22k
Porkbun LLC 560,629 in / 177,381 out
383.25k

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 1,808,775 in / 3,920,794 out · family of 3
2.11M
eNom, LLC 991,167 in / 2,818,602 out
1.83M
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 5,541,393 in / 7,361,399 out · family of 1,252
1.82M
DropExtra.com, LLC 13,903 in / 1,743,328 out · family of 516
1.73M
Newfold Digital 2,581,740 in / 3,609,551 out · family of 3
1.03M
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 1,095,462 in / 1,899,155 out
803.69k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 569,749 in / 1,345,468 out
775.72k
eName Technology Co., Ltd. 515,049 in / 1,247,724 out
732.68k
398.79k
IONOS SE 475,141 in / 847,698 out
372.56k
1,213 registrars and families

Showing 100 of 1,213 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar Domains In Out Net Turnover TLDs
PSI-Japan, Inc. 8,789 2,345 10,035 ▼ -7,690 75.77% 13
Quantum Names LLC 50,542 4,915 12,646 ▼ -7,731 17.35% 8
PlanetDomain Pty Ltd 540 8,369 ▼ -7,829 13.16% 7
Name121, Inc. 0 7,912 ▼ -7,912 71.16% 6
pair Networks, Inc. d/b/a pair Domains 66,714 8,123 16,040 ▼ -7,917 25.35% 10
Everyones Internet, Ltd. dba SoftLayer 11,705 19,801 ▼ -8,096 33.46% 5
Vantage of Convergence (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. 45,739 1,128 9,685 ▼ -8,557 23.09% 7
Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. (AIT) 26,743 3,589 12,558 ▼ -8,969 25.75% 6
Alfena, LLC 49 9,059 ▼ -9,010 172.11% 7
Easyspace Limited 70,179 10,071 19,395 ▼ -9,324 23.95% 13
Blue Razor Domains, LLC 25,367 0 9,688 ▼ -9,688 18.72% 13
ORANGE 7,114 903 10,591 ▼ -9,688 45.82% 4
Backslap Domains, Inc. 89 10,072 ▼ -9,983 179.30% 2
Dotname Korea Corp. 15,150 16,976 26,978 ▼ -10,002 47.21% 13
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH 24,845 10,925 21,131 ▼ -10,206 72.89% 16
Go Montenegro Domains, LLC 18,308 0 10,238 ▼ -10,238 22.43% 12
Go Australia Domains, LLC 19,354 0 10,707 ▼ -10,707 21.34% 11
Go China Domains, LLC 18,705 0 10,780 ▼ -10,780 23.10% 11
DNSPod, Inc. 562,311 715,612 726,415 ▼ -10,803 156.00% 11
Chengdu Fly-Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 41,335 37,651 48,685 ▼ -11,034 119.26% 8
Go France Domains, LLC 20,798 0 11,647 ▼ -11,647 24.07% 11
Rank USA, LLC 0 11,674 ▼ -11,674 319.22% 5
Domdrill.com, LLC 0 11,840 ▼ -11,840 301.96% 2
Ourdomains Limited 14,296 37,574 49,422 ▼ -11,848 150.65% 10
CCI REG S.A. 1,310 3,068 15,197 ▼ -12,129 99.49% 10
TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd. 24,292 11,322 23,470 ▼ -12,148 17.18% 11
BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC. (dba "NameJuice.com”) 18,946 252 12,607 ▼ -12,355 20.16% 4
Go Canada Domains, LLC 21,434 0 12,657 ▼ -12,657 26.50% 11
Gabia, Inc. 515,526 37,776 50,555 ▼ -12,779 17.11% 14
IDC Frontier Inc. 12,705 2,964 16,331 ▼ -13,367 63.79% 9
Commerce Island, LLC 0 14,464 ▼ -14,464 400.44% 5
NetArt Registrar Sp. z o.o. 34,893 3,224 18,159 ▼ -14,935 23.15% 5
Todaynic.com, Inc. 25,930 5,190 20,459 ▼ -15,269 25.62% 12
Xiamen Nawang Technology Co., Ltd 38,359 8,060 23,991 ▼ -15,931 25.36% 10
Foshan YiDong Network Co., LTD 4,126 856 16,922 ▼ -16,066 20.65% 9
Click Registrar, LLC dba publicdomainregistry.com 0 16,541 ▼ -16,541 17.55% 8
Net-Chinese Co., Ltd. 46,806 5,156 21,822 ▼ -16,666 13.74% 15
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER 142,575 19,253 36,836 ▼ -17,583 21.40% 14
Danesco Trading Ltd. 37,174 13,326 31,057 ▼ -17,731 42.28% 10
Hongkong Kouming International Limited 94,553 1,581 19,345 ▼ -17,764 19.42% 8
NameSecure L.L.C. 50,832 1,036 19,273 ▼ -18,237 17.83% 7
17 Domain 1, Limited family of 6 1,946 1,092 19,368 ▼ -18,276 29.87% 2
CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 66,243 20,820 39,265 ▼ -18,445 29.66% 9
Vautron Rechenzentrum AG 197,790 75,890 95,008 ▼ -19,118 52.20% 13
Shanghai Yovole Networks, Inc. 3,068 2,332 22,678 ▼ -20,346 28.73% 8
NextName B.V. d/b/a RegistrarHub 26,316 16,499 36,883 ▼ -20,384 84.56% 9
NordNet SA 31,423 1,386 22,337 ▼ -20,951 27.85% 11
Hebei Guoji Maoyi (Shanghai) LTD dba HebeiDomains.com 2,339 23,516 ▼ -21,177 38.50% 2
Hello Internet Corp. 83,085 13,682 34,921 ▼ -21,239 42.09% 8
united-domains GmbH 427,496 61,430 82,714 ▼ -21,284 28.68% 16
GKG.NET, INC. 62,666 10,495 31,933 ▼ -21,438 34.79% 11
Namebay SAM 87,970 32,483 54,269 ▼ -21,786 67.88% 13
NamePal.com, LLC 286 12,120 34,565 ▼ -22,445 91.72% 8
Guangdong JinWanBang Technology Investment Co., Ltd. 18,466 6,071 28,517 ▼ -22,446 21.33% 2
Hostopia Canada Corp 76,942 8,470 30,924 ▼ -22,454 21.20% 7
Domainshype.com, LLC 9,302 8,030 31,730 ▼ -23,700 105.38% 2
Global Domain Name Trading Center Ltd 10,948 1 28,431 ▼ -28,430 19.20% 2
Nics Telekomunikasyon A.S. 339,394 109,330 141,885 ▼ -32,555 56.99% 9
DreamHost, LLC 756,558 138,463 171,176 ▼ -32,713 38.70% 5
Nominalia Internet S.L. 112,685 26,741 59,664 ▼ -32,923 64.27% 13
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd 222,377 67,180 101,087 ▼ -33,907 9.21% 14
Net 4 India Limited 4,294 39,525 ▼ -35,231 27.48% 11
Arsys Internet, S.L. dba NICLINE.COM 398,642 80,045 116,514 ▼ -36,469 42.86% 8
DomainPeople, Inc. 206,822 23,920 63,501 ▼ -39,581 26.26% 13
Super Registry Ltd family of 4 118,568 115,075 158,516 ▼ -43,441 109.18% 12
Cronon GmbH 1,004,853 101,661 147,465 ▼ -45,804 21.21% 12
BigRock Solutions Ltd. 193,396 59,945 106,874 ▼ -46,929 42.06% 13
DOMAIN NAME NETWORK PTY LTD 30,154 2,492 50,294 ▼ -47,802 45.14% 7
MAT BAO CORPORATION 145,374 9,585 61,624 ▼ -52,039 18.23% 11
NetRegistry Pty Ltd. 4,729 57,051 ▼ -52,322 45.35% 2
Launchpad.com Inc. 381,174 137,286 194,947 ▼ -57,661 41.41% 5
DNC Holdings, Inc. 323,065 43,010 101,348 ▼ -58,338 26.93% 13
Mesh Digital Limited 547,651 256,991 319,007 ▼ -62,016 52.13% 14
Metaregistrar BV 656,517 64,557 126,641 ▼ -62,084 28.20% 13
Sav.com, LLC family of 51 641,801 514,485 577,052 ▼ -62,567 112.24% 11
Xiamen 35.com Information Co., Ltd. 141,994 13,954 78,736 ▼ -64,782 31.24% 10
Gandi SAS 843,321 272,535 339,350 ▼ -66,815 56.01% 17
TLDS L.L.C. d/b/a SRSPlus 94,988 34,895 104,506 ▼ -69,611 55.67% 7
Register SPA 672,145 143,414 213,104 ▼ -69,690 47.66% 12
COREhub, S.R.L. 95,206 39,406 111,645 ▼ -72,239 70.39% 17
July Name Limited 307,680 279,765 356,239 ▼ -76,474 90.53% 11
DomainSpot LLC 132,607 8,884 86,405 ▼ -77,521 30.40% 12
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd 24,165 104,565 ▼ -80,400 91.67% 7
InterNetX GmbH 981,299 354,567 437,153 ▼ -82,586 59.91% 17
Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd. 79,446 83,892 170,672 ▼ -86,780 52.13% 12
Hongkong Domain Name Information Management Co., Ltd. 5,716 112,185 ▼ -106,469 25.18% 8
123-Reg Limited 676,474 96,217 207,483 ▼ -111,266 32.41% 3
Moniker Online Services LLC 232,704 61,282 183,791 ▼ -122,509 38.82% 10
OwnRegistrar, Inc. 216,819 35,348 170,790 ▼ -135,442 32.88% 14
Cloud Yuqu LLC 267,579 8,104 144,689 ▼ -136,585 45.06% 2
West263 International Limited 243,833 67,297 229,353 ▼ -162,056 34.49% 9
Beijing Innovative Linkage Software Service Co. Ltd 8,485 175,285 ▼ -166,800 36.75% 4
Leascend Technology Co., Ltd. 33,227 213,530 ▼ -180,303 57.96% 9
OnlineNIC, Inc. 182,446 78,159 278,471 ▼ -200,312 45.31% 14
FBS Inc. 8,074 43,828 245,499 ▼ -201,671 51.63% 14
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 763,198 370,997 577,376 ▼ -206,379 52.66% 10
Sea Wasp, LLC 152,303 88,247 295,073 ▼ -206,826 44.04% 10
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd. 82,966 53,710 261,544 ▼ -207,834 65.85% 11
22net, Inc. family of 4 112,912 266,642 486,520 ▼ -219,878 46.56% 9
Name.com, Inc. family of 6 1,965,597 606,176 859,265 ▼ -253,089 74.55% 16

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.