Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which legacy gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over Jul 2016 – Jul 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, Jul 2016 – Jul 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.

Jul 2016 – Jul 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All

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Domains transferred

67.22M

Jul 2016 – Jul 2026

Busiest month

1.21M

Aug 2022

Both sides agree to

99.99%

4,797 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 Jul 2016 – Jul 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 6,768,746 in / 962,387 out · family of 500

5.81M

Namecheap 3,604,878 in / 2,002,116 out · family of 2

1.60M

Cloudflare, Inc. 1,689,358 in / 113,140 out

1.58M

HOSTINGER operations, UAB 825,575 in / 164,636 out

660.94k

GoDaddy 10,842,175 in / 10,218,298 out · family of 4

623.88k

Dynadot Inc 1,849,121 in / 1,299,856 out · family of 24

549.27k

NameSilo, LLC 1,276,989 in / 773,799 out

503.19k

DomainAdministration.com, LLC 586,416 in / 134,762 out · family of 6

451.65k

Amazon Registrar, Inc. 590,357 in / 146,187 out

444.17k

Porkbun LLC 602,654 in / 190,456 out

412.20k

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 1,801,410 in / 3,871,838 out · family of 3

2.07M

eNom, LLC 912,438 in / 2,819,793 out

1.91M

TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 5,784,681 in / 7,604,412 out · family of 1,252

1.82M

DropExtra.com, LLC 15,134 in / 1,728,202 out · family of 516

1.71M

Newfold Digital 2,553,399 in / 3,667,516 out · family of 3

1.11M

Xin Net Technology Corporation 570,082 in / 1,351,157 out

781.08k

eName Technology Co., Ltd. 466,785 in / 1,235,567 out

768.78k

PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 1,119,030 in / 1,878,114 out

759.08k

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 239,933 in / 687,569 out

447.64k

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 3,126,038 in / 3,560,343 out · family of 3

434.31k

Showing 18 of 1,218 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
FBS Inc.	6,726	40,481	245,008	▼ -204,527	51.86%	14
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	766,034	380,464	588,065	▼ -207,601	53.78%	10
22net, Inc. family of 4	109,140	245,391	455,577	▼ -210,186	44.48%	9
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd.	67,080	50,125	263,560	▼ -213,435	65.52%	11
Name.com, Inc. family of 6	2,136,017	604,502	866,059	▼ -261,557	68.85%	16
Bizcn.com, Inc.	135,586	97,749	422,289	▼ -324,540	47.66%	11
Bluehost Inc.	1,204,152	347,699	697,728	▼ -350,029	43.40%	10
IONOS SE	5,237,122	470,802	836,552	▼ -365,750	23.79%	14
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) family of 3	4,305,405	3,126,038	3,560,343	▼ -434,305	81.96%	12
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	2,819,982	239,933	687,569	▼ -447,636	24.67%	14
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	2,875,865	1,119,030	1,878,114	▼ -759,084	59.56%	14
eName Technology Co., Ltd.	463,233	466,785	1,235,567	▼ -768,782	44.18%	6
Xin Net Technology Corporation	751,869	570,082	1,351,157	▼ -781,075	40.21%	12
Newfold Digital family of 3	6,248,266	2,553,399	3,667,516	▼ -1,114,117	55.55%	13
DropExtra.com, LLC family of 516	413,522	15,134	1,728,202	▼ -1,713,068	128.36%	6
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com family of 1,252	4,522,129	5,784,681	7,604,412	▼ -1,819,731	204.70%	8
eNom, LLC	2,588,377	912,438	2,819,793	▼ -1,907,355	31.97%	14
Tucows family of 3	8,819,294	1,801,410	3,871,838	▼ -2,070,428	49.74%	17

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 8 November 2026 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for July 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.