Registrar transfers

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

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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

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Domains transferred

69.59M

Apr 2016 – Apr 2026

Busiest month

1.23M

Aug 2022

Both sides agree to

99.97%

21,526 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. 6,589,958 in / 889,110 out · family of 500

5.70M

Cloudflare, Inc. 1,752,340 in / 113,151 out

1.64M

Namecheap 3,587,577 in / 2,107,304 out · family of 2

1.48M

HOSTINGER operations, UAB 791,475 in / 152,248 out

639.23k

Dynadot Inc 1,864,511 in / 1,323,082 out · family of 24

541.43k

NameSilo, LLC 1,341,235 in / 801,716 out

539.52k

GoDaddy 11,061,009 in / 10,521,616 out · family of 4

539.39k

DomainAdministration.com, LLC 615,956 in / 133,111 out · family of 6

482.85k

Amazon Registrar, Inc. 604,823 in / 142,076 out

462.75k

Porkbun LLC 686,355 in / 233,555 out

452.80k

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 1,907,540 in / 4,073,316 out · family of 3

2.17M

eNom, LLC 1,022,062 in / 2,885,453 out

1.86M

TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 5,541,658 in / 7,361,526 out · family of 1,252

1.82M

DropExtra.com, LLC 14,024 in / 1,743,340 out · family of 516

1.73M

Newfold Digital 2,598,976 in / 3,664,630 out · family of 3

1.07M

PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 1,123,797 in / 1,954,388 out

830.59k

Xin Net Technology Corporation 581,238 in / 1,360,542 out

779.30k

eName Technology Co., Ltd. 546,308 in / 1,280,425 out

734.12k

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 245,515 in / 655,235 out

409.72k

IONOS SE 530,398 in / 901,545 out

371.15k

Showing 48 of 1,248 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
DOMAIN NAME NETWORK PTY LTD	30,184	2,493	50,913	▼ -48,420	45.66%	286
Cronon GmbH	1,171,787	117,408	168,307	▼ -50,899	21.19%	412
MAT BAO CORPORATION	165,422	9,771	61,881	▼ -52,110	16.63%	426
NetRegistry Pty Ltd.	–	4,729	57,051	▼ -52,322	45.35%	4
Xiamen ChinaSource Internet Service Co., Ltd	140,957	46,552	99,811	▼ -53,259	54.76%	392
Launchpad.com Inc.	381,174	137,286	194,947	▼ -57,661	41.41%	14
DNC Holdings, Inc.	331,822	43,771	102,682	▼ -58,911	26.92%	438
Metaregistrar BV	708,355	70,656	130,567	▼ -59,911	27.57%	426
Xiamen 35.com Information Co., Ltd.	144,226	13,965	78,757	▼ -64,792	30.98%	302
TLDS L.L.C. d/b/a SRSPlus	94,988	34,895	104,506	▼ -69,611	55.67%	16
Register SPA	676,350	143,419	213,131	▼ -69,712	47.64%	302
Gandi SAS	1,032,408	312,896	383,635	▼ -70,739	49.51%	573
COREhub, S.R.L.	117,094	42,364	113,982	▼ -71,618	71.42%	562
July Name Limited	344,575	285,848	360,350	▼ -74,502	87.77%	483
DomainSpot LLC	133,376	9,009	86,486	▼ -77,477	30.43%	402
Mesh Digital Limited	679,880	266,249	345,046	▼ -78,797	48.59%	469
InterNetX GmbH	1,217,252	384,027	463,069	▼ -79,042	58.55%	520
Netregistry Wholesale Pty Ltd	–	24,165	104,565	▼ -80,400	91.67%	7
Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd.	86,528	84,433	175,195	▼ -90,762	49.99%	206
Hongkong Domain Name Information Management Co., Ltd.	–	5,724	112,206	▼ -106,482	24.93%	367
Sav.com, LLC family of 51	875,225	550,397	660,393	▼ -109,996	56.12%	467
123-Reg Limited	676,474	96,217	207,483	▼ -111,266	32.41%	33
Moniker Online Services LLC	232,706	61,282	183,791	▼ -122,509	38.82%	24
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	244,240	35,864	171,211	▼ -135,347	21.66%	514
Cloud Yuqu LLC	267,579	8,104	144,689	▼ -136,585	45.06%	2
Beijing Innovative Linkage Software Service Co. Ltd	–	8,499	177,495	▼ -168,996	34.48%	17
West263 International Limited	1,471,488	89,394	266,185	▼ -176,791	10.66%	406
SHENZHEN EIMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD	1,849	151,507	333,644	▼ -182,137	94.00%	368
Leascend Technology Co., Ltd.	–	33,351	217,090	▼ -183,739	58.14%	112
OnlineNIC, Inc.	189,395	79,678	281,300	▼ -201,622	41.47%	445
FBS Inc.	8,592	44,510	249,758	▼ -205,248	49.32%	438
Sea Wasp, LLC	152,615	89,194	295,323	▼ -206,129	44.18%	419
22net, Inc. family of 4	130,565	281,186	496,769	▼ -215,583	45.01%	349
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd.	89,884	55,796	280,831	▼ -225,035	47.47%	398
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	1,390,425	497,955	768,913	▼ -270,958	22.87%	440
Name.com, Inc. family of 6	2,607,322	631,427	916,955	▼ -285,528	59.39%	516
Bizcn.com, Inc.	151,989	98,377	436,214	▼ -337,837	45.18%	376
Bluehost Inc.	1,264,627	359,383	708,816	▼ -349,433	44.35%	315
IONOS SE	5,927,840	530,398	901,545	▼ -371,147	24.16%	465
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	10,535,929	245,515	655,235	▼ -409,720	8.55%	466
eName Technology Co., Ltd.	534,745	546,308	1,280,425	▼ -734,117	37.37%	39
Xin Net Technology Corporation	910,492	581,238	1,360,542	▼ -779,304	38.03%	428
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	3,509,349	1,123,797	1,954,388	▼ -830,591	49.07%	464
Newfold Digital family of 3	7,071,154	2,598,976	3,664,630	▼ -1,065,654	55.10%	474
DropExtra.com, LLC family of 516	464,614	14,024	1,743,340	▼ -1,729,316	129.38%	51
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com family of 1,252	4,385,830	5,541,658	7,361,526	▼ -1,819,868	197.27%	312
eNom, LLC	2,982,999	1,022,062	2,885,453	▼ -1,863,391	32.24%	517
Tucows family of 3	9,976,360	1,907,540	4,073,316	▼ -2,165,776	50.12%	592

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 27 August 2026 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.