Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over Apr 2023 – Apr 2026, and which lost them, from the registries' own monthly reports to ICANN.

Registrars combined into families individual accreditations

Domains transferred by month, Apr 2023 – 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 2023 – Apr 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All
473.85k554.75k635.64k716.53k797.42kApr 2023Oct 2024Apr 2026
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Domains transferred
22.24M
Apr 2023 – Apr 2026
Busiest month
775.11k
Mar 2026
Both sides agree to
99.81%
41,698 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 2023 – Apr 2026. Bar length is the net; the label gives both directions.

Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 3,971,248 in / 832,841 out · family of 500
3.14M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,139,319 in / 79,987 out
1.06M
Namecheap 1,974,226 in / 1,028,635 out · family of 2
945.59k
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 695,778 in / 120,880 out
574.90k
Dynadot Inc 968,860 in / 603,575 out · family of 24
365.29k
Unstoppable Domains Inc. 336,594 in / 14,911 out · family of 1
321.68k
Porkbun LLC 437,038 in / 152,188 out
284.85k
238.67k
DomainAdministration.com, LLC 282,881 in / 59,154 out · family of 6
223.73k
Squarespace Domains LLC 313,072 in / 104,592 out
208.48k

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) 493,517 in / 1,338,643 out · family of 3
845.13k
Newfold Digital 244,720 in / 1,029,099 out · family of 3
784.38k
Squarespace Domains II LLC 121,174 in / 812,829 out
691.66k
eNom, LLC 110,580 in / 694,536 out
583.96k
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 599,595 in / 1,165,757 out · family of 1,252
566.16k
Tucows 471,550 in / 1,010,126 out · family of 3
538.58k
DropExtra.com, LLC 5,737 in / 507,715 out · family of 516
501.98k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 71,125 in / 353,881 out
282.76k
280.80k
245.58k
575 registrars and families
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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.