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 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

36.90M

Apr 2021 – Apr 2026

Busiest month

1.21M

Aug 2022

Both sides agree to

99.98%

5,912 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. 6,491,506 in / 881,832 out · family of 500

5.61M

Cloudflare, Inc. 1,268,901 in / 95,171 out

1.17M

Namecheap 2,485,156 in / 1,378,161 out · family of 2

1.11M

HOSTINGER operations, UAB 727,855 in / 121,989 out

605.87k

Dynadot Inc 1,380,643 in / 1,027,118 out · family of 24

353.53k

Hefei Juming Network Technology Co., Ltd 644,548 in / 327,783 out

316.77k

Unstoppable Domains Inc. 325,508 in / 14,728 out · family of 1

310.78k

Porkbun LLC 461,454 in / 163,237 out

298.22k

Squarespace Domains LLC 395,242 in / 120,507 out

274.74k

GoDaddy 5,555,806 in / 5,296,470 out · family of 4

259.34k

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) 1,075,403 in / 2,299,849 out · family of 3

1.22M

Newfold Digital 686,409 in / 1,868,220 out · family of 3

1.18M

eNom, LLC 199,826 in / 1,233,903 out

1.03M

Tucows 724,267 in / 1,711,396 out · family of 3

987.13k

DropExtra.com, LLC 7,897 in / 984,094 out · family of 516

976.20k

TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 2,485,614 in / 3,455,883 out · family of 1,252

970.27k

Xin Net Technology Corporation 83,721 in / 682,617 out

598.90k

PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 436,201 in / 931,626 out

495.43k

GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 111,560 in / 490,493 out

378.93k

Squarespace Domains II LLC 508,613 in / 826,442 out

317.83k

Showing 8 of 608 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar	Domains	In	Out	Net	Turnover	TLDs
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	2,849,676	436,201	931,626	▼ -495,425	29.26%	14
Xin Net Technology Corporation	778,503	83,721	682,617	▼ -598,896	41.74%	12
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com family of 1,252	4,384,393	2,485,614	3,455,883	▼ -970,269	92.56%	8
DropExtra.com, LLC family of 516	464,383	7,897	984,094	▼ -976,197	73.04%	6
Tucows family of 3	8,905,771	724,267	1,711,396	▼ -987,129	22.04%	17
eNom, LLC	2,681,687	199,826	1,233,903	▼ -1,034,077	31.72%	14
Newfold Digital family of 3	6,494,762	686,409	1,868,220	▼ -1,181,811	25.81%	13
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) family of 3	4,386,580	1,075,403	2,299,849	▼ -1,224,446	47.35%	12

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.