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
Dalai Lama, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 73.76% 6
Erwin Rommel, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 73.50% 6
Pheenix 59, LLC 0 208 ▼ -208 69.80% 3
Pheenix 12, LLC 0 209 ▼ -209 74.11% 3
Pheenix 58, LLC 0 209 ▼ -209 72.82% 3
Pheenix 78, LLC 0 209 ▼ -209 76.56% 3
Pheenix 1, LLC 0 210 ▼ -210 74.47% 3
Pheenix 70, LLC 0 210 ▼ -210 86.07% 3
Pheenix 97, LLC 0 210 ▼ -210 75.00% 3
Pheenix 30, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 74.30% 3
Pheenix 49, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 79.32% 3
Pheenix 91, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 82.10% 3
Winston Churchill, LLC 0 211 ▼ -211 71.04% 3
Pheenix 35, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 77.66% 3
Pheenix 53, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 72.11% 3
Pheenix 60, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 77.09% 3
Pheenix 96, LLC 0 212 ▼ -212 79.70% 3
Isaac Newton, LLC 0 213 ▼ -213 67.19% 6
Online Data Services Joint Stock Company 255 468 ▼ -213 24.25% 4
Pheenix 15, LLC 0 213 ▼ -213 77.45% 3
Pheenix 44, LLC 0 213 ▼ -213 80.08% 3
Pheenix 73, LLC 0 213 ▼ -213 73.70% 3
Pheenix 29, LLC 0 215 ▼ -215 72.64% 3
Honjo Masamune, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 69.45% 3
Pheenix 41, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 89.63% 3
Pheenix 51, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 77.70% 3
Pheenix 74, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 76.33% 3
Pheenix 84, LLC 0 216 ▼ -216 77.70% 3
Pheenix 34, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 69.11% 3
Pheenix 57, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 80.37% 3
Pheenix 6, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 80.37% 3
Pheenix 72, LLC 0 217 ▼ -217 78.06% 3
James Madison, LLC 0 218 ▼ -218 65.47% 6
Pheenix 20, LLC 0 218 ▼ -218 81.95% 3
Ulfberht, LLC 0 218 ▼ -218 74.40% 3
Zulfigar, LLC 0 218 ▼ -218 73.15% 3
Charles Darwin, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 68.87% 6
Pheenix 21, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 73.74% 3
Pheenix 25, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 75.52% 3
Pheenix 77, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 76.04% 3
Pheenix 87, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 77.66% 3
Vlad the Impaler, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 73.49% 3
William Wallace, LLC 0 219 ▼ -219 73.24% 3
Constantine the Great, LLC 0 220 ▼ -220 69.84% 6
Leif Ericson, LLC 0 220 ▼ -220 70.29% 6
Pheenix 45, LLC 0 220 ▼ -220 81.78% 3
Pheenix 79, LLC 0 220 ▼ -220 84.94% 3
Pheenix 90, LLC 0 220 ▼ -220 77.19% 3
Zeus 888, LLC 0 220 ▼ -220 72.85% 3
Hrunting, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 75.68% 3
Omni 888, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 69.94% 6
Pheenix 100, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 80.66% 3
Pheenix 18, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 77.27% 3
Pheenix 37, LLC 0 221 ▼ -221 75.95% 3
Billy the Kid, LLC 0 222 ▼ -222 71.84% 6
Name113, Inc. 0 222 ▼ -222 33.33% 6
Pheenix 88, LLC 0 222 ▼ -222 82.84% 3
Pheenix 99, LLC 0 222 ▼ -222 79.00% 3
Thomas Edison, LLC 0 222 ▼ -222 75.00% 3
Pheenix 4, LLC 0 223 ▼ -223 79.08% 3
Pheenix 56, LLC 0 223 ▼ -223 74.83% 3
Pheenix 8, LLC 0 223 ▼ -223 77.43% 3
Pheenix 92, LLC 0 223 ▼ -223 82.59% 3
Mahatma Gandhi, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 76.19% 3
Pheenix 13, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 84.53% 3
Pheenix 5, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 76.45% 3
Pheenix 9, LLC 0 224 ▼ -224 78.05% 3
Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd. 12,963 2,256 2,481 ▼ -225 36.54% 12
Nictrade Internet Identity Provider AB 0 225 ▼ -225 3.00% 5
Odysseus 888, LLC 0 225 ▼ -225 67.37% 6
Pheenix 62, LLC 0 225 ▼ -225 79.51% 3
Richard the Lionheart 888, LLC 0 225 ▼ -225 67.37% 6
Name109, Inc. 0 226 ▼ -226 38.83% 7
Pheenix 33, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 78.47% 3
Pheenix 43, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 72.67% 3
Pheenix 94, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 83.70% 3
Ramses II, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 67.66% 6
Titus 888, LLC 0 226 ▼ -226 68.28% 3
Pheenix 26, LLC 0 227 ▼ -227 81.36% 3
Pheenix 47, LLC 0 227 ▼ -227 74.92% 3
Pheenix 32, LLC 0 228 ▼ -228 80.28% 3
Thomas Jefferson, LLC 0 228 ▼ -228 70.59% 3
Maximus, LLC 0 229 ▼ -229 72.93% 6
Pheenix 50, LLC 0 229 ▼ -229 77.10% 3
Pheenix 75, LLC 0 229 ▼ -229 81.49% 3
Buddha, LLC 0 230 ▼ -230 74.68% 5
Pheenix 71, LLC 0 230 ▼ -230 79.86% 3
Stormbringer, LLC 0 230 ▼ -230 76.16% 3
Pheenix 40, LLC 0 231 ▼ -231 87.50% 3
Pheenix 54, LLC 0 231 ▼ -231 82.50% 3
Pheenix 80, LLC 0 231 ▼ -231 83.39% 3
Pheenix 82, LLC 0 231 ▼ -231 80.77% 3
#1 Internet Services International, Inc. dba 1ISI 6 238 ▼ -232 25.52% 5
Pheenix 2, LLC 0 232 ▼ -232 82.56% 3
Pheenix 39, LLC 0 232 ▼ -232 82.86% 3
Eric the Red, LLC 0 233 ▼ -233 69.55% 6
Pheenix 67, LLC 0 233 ▼ -233 86.30% 3
Pheenix 76, LLC 0 233 ▼ -233 83.21% 3
Abraham Lincoln, LLC 0 234 ▼ -234 92.86% 5
Pheenix 31, LLC 0 234 ▼ -234 81.82% 3

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.