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.

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
436.72k650.35k863.97k1.08M1.29MApr 2021Oct 2023Apr 2026
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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
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
514.83k
386.68k
Squarespace Domains II LLC 555,736 in / 936,976 out
381.24k
633 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.