Registrar transfers

Domains do not only get registered and dropped — they move. This is which gTLD registrars gained domains from other registrars over Apr 2016 – 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 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
284.77k539.19k793.62k1.05M1.30MApr 2016Apr 2021Apr 2026
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Domains transferred
69.59M
Apr 2016 – Apr 2026
Busiest month
1.23M
Aug 2022
Both sides agree to
99.97%
21,526 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. 6,589,958 in / 889,110 out · family of 500
5.70M
Cloudflare, Inc. 1,752,340 in / 113,151 out
1.64M
Namecheap 3,587,577 in / 2,107,304 out · family of 2
1.48M
HOSTINGER operations, UAB 791,475 in / 152,248 out
639.23k
Dynadot Inc 1,864,511 in / 1,323,082 out · family of 24
541.43k
NameSilo, LLC 1,341,235 in / 801,716 out
539.52k
GoDaddy 11,061,009 in / 10,521,616 out · family of 4
539.39k
DomainAdministration.com, LLC 615,956 in / 133,111 out · family of 6
482.85k
Amazon Registrar, Inc. 604,823 in / 142,076 out
462.75k
Porkbun LLC 686,355 in / 233,555 out
452.80k

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 1,907,540 in / 4,073,316 out · family of 3
2.17M
eNom, LLC 1,022,062 in / 2,885,453 out
1.86M
TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com 5,541,658 in / 7,361,526 out · family of 1,252
1.82M
DropExtra.com, LLC 14,024 in / 1,743,340 out · family of 516
1.73M
Newfold Digital 2,598,976 in / 3,664,630 out · family of 3
1.07M
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 1,123,797 in / 1,954,388 out
830.59k
Xin Net Technology Corporation 581,238 in / 1,360,542 out
779.30k
eName Technology Co., Ltd. 546,308 in / 1,280,425 out
734.12k
409.72k
IONOS SE 530,398 in / 901,545 out
371.15k
1,248 registrars and families

Showing 100 of 1,248 registrars, sorted by net transfers. Every column heading sorts; paging is below.

Registrar Domains In Out Net Turnover TLDs
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
Pheenix 69, LLC 0 234 ▼ -234 82.11% 3
Henan Weichuang Network Technology Co. Ltd. 99 334 ▼ -235 7.02% 45
Joyeuse, LLC 0 235 ▼ -235 73.90% 3
Pheenix 11, LLC 0 235 ▼ -235 86.40% 3
Pheenix 46, LLC 0 235 ▼ -235 91.80% 3
BrandNames.com SARL 231 469 ▼ -238 121.74% 9
Joan of Arc, LLC 0 239 ▼ -239 73.09% 6
Socrates 888, LLC 0 239 ▼ -239 75.39% 6
Hostpoint AG 7,594 657 897 ▼ -240 20.29% 2
Pheenix 17, LLC 0 240 ▼ -240 86.02% 3
Annam, LLC 0 242 ▼ -242 86.43% 5
Pheenix 3, LLC 0 242 ▼ -242 79.34% 3
Pheenix 42, LLC 0 242 ▼ -242 84.32% 3
Theseus 888, LLC 0 242 ▼ -242 69.74% 3
Arthur Pendragon, LLC 0 243 ▼ -243 85.56% 6
Name111, Inc. 0 243 ▼ -243 37.67% 6
Peter the Great, LLC 0 243 ▼ -243 76.42% 6
Pheenix 48, LLC 0 243 ▼ -243 84.08% 3
Pheenix 24, LLC 0 244 ▼ -244 83.85% 3
Wild Bill Hickok, LLC 0 244 ▼ -244 75.54% 3
Plato 888, LLC 0 245 ▼ -245 74.24% 6
Hercules 888, LLC 0 246 ▼ -246 78.85% 5
Volusion, Inc. 151 397 ▼ -246 3.18% 3
Green Destiny, LLC 0 247 ▼ -247 69.19% 3
Pheenix 38, LLC 0 247 ▼ -247 85.47% 3
Tool Domains Ltd dba Edoms.com 4,045 1 248 ▼ -247 6.16% 434
Leonidas, LLC 0 248 ▼ -248 82.12% 6
Pheenix 10, LLC 0 248 ▼ -248 76.54% 3
Perseus 888, LLC 0 250 ▼ -250 75.08% 6
Confucius, LLC 0 252 ▼ -252 74.34% 6
La Tizone, LLC 0 252 ▼ -252 81.55% 3
Sir Lancelot du Lac, LLC 0 252 ▼ -252 73.47% 6
Tan Tran, LLC 0 252 ▼ -252 77.30% 3
Galileo Galilei, LLC 0 253 ▼ -253 76.20% 5
Poseidon 888, LLC 0 253 ▼ -253 70.67% 6
Brennercom Limited 2 256 ▼ -254 193.98% 2
Excalibur, LLC 0 256 ▼ -256 72.52% 3
Pheenix 27, LLC 0 257 ▼ -257 89.24% 3
Pheenix 16, LLC 0 258 ▼ -258 93.14% 3
Pheenix 55, LLC 0 258 ▼ -258 79.63% 3
Dainam, LLC 0 261 ▼ -261 88.78% 6
April Sea Corporation Company Limited 15,909 0 262 ▼ -262 0.33% 12
Apollo 888, LLC 0 264 ▼ -264 94.62% 6
ZYSM Technologies Limited 3,134 47 311 ▼ -264 11.42% 7
Achilles 888, LLC 0 266 ▼ -266 93.66% 6
Ares 888, LLC 0 266 ▼ -266 77.78% 6
Aristotle 888, LLC 0 266 ▼ -266 91.41% 3
Benjamin Franklin 888, LLC 0 267 ▼ -267 86.13% 6
Kheweul.com SA 2,181 344 612 ▼ -268 22.14% 93
Mailinh, LLC 0 269 ▼ -269 82.01% 3
Zhengzhou Business Technology Co., Ltd. 0 269 ▼ -269 16.07% 56
Radu Damian, LLC 0 278 ▼ -278 91.75% 6
Name108, Inc. 0 286 ▼ -286 39.34% 6
Seymour Domains, LLC 2 302 ▼ -300 101.00% 2
Onpassive Technologies L.L.C 0 308 ▼ -308 314.29% 2
Intracom Middle East FZE 3 319 ▼ -316 1.14% 82
Networking4all B.V. 456 783 ▼ -327 10.01% 13
rockenstein AG 2,743 186 514 ▼ -328 19.06% 16
DotAlliance Inc. 1,318 69 399 ▼ -330 13.39% 69
Jiangxi Nanshi Information Service Company Limited 0 335 ▼ -335 96.82% 2
DomainName.com, Inc. 24 380 ▼ -356 8.02% 18
DNS:NET Internet Service GmbH 98 458 ▼ -360 18.05% 2
Mijndomein.nl BV 25 388 ▼ -363 1.98% 2
Internet NAYANA Inc. 348 716 ▼ -368 13.53% 6
Tuonome.it Srl d/b/a APIsrs.com 3,719 310 680 ▼ -370 19.39% 114
Virtual Registrar, Inc. 101 474 ▼ -373 9.73% 5
Registrar Manager Inc. 10 392 ▼ -382 291.30% 2
Netzadresse.at Domain Service GmbH 245 629 ▼ -384 6.10% 11
SaveMoreNames.com Inc. 0 384 ▼ -384 300.00% 2
Name.cc Inc 0 385 ▼ -385 25.02% 2
World4You Internet Services GmbH 65,249 8,799 9,190 ▼ -391 27.57% 2
Globis LLC 1 402 ▼ -401 6.63% 12
Agrinoon Inc 0 406 ▼ -406 25.14% 2
Internetters Limited 29 445 ▼ -416 2.40% 320
EJEE Group Holdings Limited 8,852 9,272 ▼ -420 7.93% 405
NameStream.com, Inc. 0 439 ▼ -439 304.86% 2
GoName-TX.com, Inc. 0 448 ▼ -448 58.18% 4
GoName-WA.com, Inc. 0 451 ▼ -451 59.66% 4
Intersolved-TN.com, Inc. 0 454 ▼ -454 60.94% 3
Intersolved-FL.com, Inc. 0 456 ▼ -456 55.21% 4
Intersolved-HI.com, Inc. 0 457 ▼ -457 56.07% 4
Intersolved-TX.com, Inc. 0 461 ▼ -461 59.95% 3
World Biz Domains, LLC 33 501 ▼ -468 51.05% 6
Ekados, Inc., d/b/a groundregistry.com 358 830 ▼ -472 131.71% 13

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.