Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over Apr 2021 – 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 2021 – 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 2021 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All

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Domains transferred

38.59M

Apr 2021 – Apr 2026

Busiest month

1.23M

Aug 2022

Both sides agree to

99.91%

35,714 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 2021 – Apr 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 6,546,729 in / 887,971 out · family of 500

5.66M

Cloudflare, Inc. 1,449,458 in / 103,117 out

1.35M

Namecheap 2,653,181 in / 1,529,112 out · family of 2

1.12M

HOSTINGER operations, UAB 745,089 in / 135,656 out

609.43k

Dynadot Inc 1,453,514 in / 1,068,156 out · family of 24

385.36k

Porkbun LLC 560,523 in / 210,281 out

350.24k

Unstoppable Domains Inc. 336,594 in / 14,911 out · family of 1

321.68k

Hefei Juming Network Technology Co., Ltd 646,825 in / 328,274 out

318.55k

Squarespace Domains LLC 401,835 in / 121,391 out

280.44k

DomainAdministration.com, LLC 303,761 in / 78,270 out · family of 6

225.49k

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.

Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 1,116,021 in / 2,383,961 out · family of 3

1.27M

Newfold Digital 694,632 in / 1,906,493 out · family of 3

1.21M

eNom, LLC 211,491 in / 1,263,621 out

1.05M

Tucows 787,507 in / 1,818,312 out · family of 3

1.03M

DropExtra.com, LLC 7,996 in / 984,106 out · family of 516

976.11k

TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 2,485,879 in / 3,456,010 out · family of 1,252

970.13k

Xin Net Technology Corporation 93,280 in / 691,102 out

597.82k

PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 451,803 in / 966,628 out

514.83k

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 112,702 in / 499,382 out

386.68k

Squarespace Domains II LLC 555,736 in / 936,976 out

381.24k

Showing 33 of 633 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
Bizcn.com, Inc.	151,989	76,161	165,427	▼ -89,266	53.46%	376
Beijing Innovative Linkage Software Service Co. Ltd	–	0	90,615	▼ -90,615	52.30%	17
Leascend Technology Co., Ltd.	–	27,796	118,665	▼ -90,869	39.80%	112
West263 International Limited	1,471,488	70,399	165,950	▼ -95,551	16.06%	406
Sav.com, LLC family of 51	875,225	487,477	589,046	▼ -101,569	49.89%	467
Hongkong Domain Name Information Management Co., Ltd.	–	5,553	111,764	▼ -106,211	24.80%	367
Cloud Yuqu LLC	267,579	8,103	124,937	▼ -116,834	39.24%	2
IONOS SE	5,927,840	261,711	378,933	▼ -117,222	10.81%	465
July Name Limited	344,575	234,141	351,912	▼ -117,771	79.60%	483
MAFF Inc. family of 19	12,921	195,843	314,769	▼ -118,926	53.68%	107
OnlineNIC, Inc.	189,395	26,993	147,748	▼ -120,755	28.31%	445
Mesh Digital Limited	679,880	26,752	151,497	▼ -124,745	18.12%	469
Gandi SAS	1,032,408	123,642	258,755	▼ -135,113	27.18%	573
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	244,240	26,626	165,546	▼ -138,920	20.11%	514
FBS Inc.	8,592	274	149,965	▼ -149,691	42.35%	438
InterNetX GmbH	1,217,252	150,238	315,735	▼ -165,497	32.21%	520
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	1,390,425	260,591	439,513	▼ -178,922	39.17%	440
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd.	89,884	16,938	212,271	▼ -195,333	43.76%	398
Epik LLC	207,932	268,656	476,373	▼ -207,717	92.19%	449
Bluehost Inc.	1,264,627	101,261	311,429	▼ -210,168	17.13%	315
DNSPod, Inc.	974,695	374,407	586,066	▼ -211,659	66.49%	375
eName Technology Co., Ltd.	534,745	63,751	351,770	▼ -288,019	58.09%	39
Name.com, Inc. family of 6	2,607,322	185,832	497,805	▼ -311,973	26.22%	516
Squarespace Domains II LLC	7,800,756	555,736	936,976	▼ -381,240	15.37%	437
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	10,535,929	112,702	499,382	▼ -386,680	5.81%	466
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	3,509,349	451,803	966,628	▼ -514,825	27.05%	464
Xin Net Technology Corporation	910,492	93,280	691,102	▼ -597,822	39.96%	428
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com family of 1,252	4,385,830	2,485,879	3,456,010	▼ -970,131	92.56%	312
DropExtra.com, LLC family of 516	464,614	7,996	984,106	▼ -976,110	73.04%	51
Tucows family of 3	9,976,360	787,507	1,818,312	▼ -1,030,805	22.06%	592
eNom, LLC	2,982,999	211,491	1,263,621	▼ -1,052,130	29.67%	517
Newfold Digital family of 3	7,071,154	694,632	1,906,493	▼ -1,211,861	24.66%	474
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) family of 3	6,361,835	1,116,021	2,383,961	▼ -1,267,940	37.05%	447

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.