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registrar · SNAPNAMES 8, LLC · IANA 1009

SNAPNAMES 8, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 8 was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 1.44 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 118 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 8 held 183 domains in June 2026, under 0.1% of all domains in generic TLDs. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

<0.1%
market share, June 2026
183
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 8’s share of the 2 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026
  1. Verisign
  2. .com<0.1%
  3. .net<0.1%

The tick marks its 0.0% across its 0 largest TLDs. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

Where Newfold Digital ranks in the new TLDs

By June 2026, Newfold Digital’s registrars held 1,309,494 domains in the new TLDs from ICANN’s 2012 round, 2.2% of them, eleventh among registrar groups. Namecheap’s registrars held the most: 11,276,866.

  1. Namecheap19.1%
  2. GMO Internet Group14.3%
  3. GoDaddy12.6%
  4. Dynadot7.4%
  5. NameSilo5.0%
  6. Newfold Digital2.2%

Domains in the 2012-round TLDs by registrar group. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

do customers stay?

July 2025 to June 2026

From July 2025 to June 2026, SNAPNAMES 8 customers renewed 57% of their expiring domains: 77 renewed, 58 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 8 than to it: 0 in, 97 out.

77 renewed58 let go
0 moved in97 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

SNAPNAMES 8’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 2026183Change+6New domains14Deleted2TLDs2May 2026177Change-4New domains16Deleted6TLDs2Apr 2026181Change+6New domains10Deleted3TLDs2Mar 2026175Change+2New domains11Deleted2TLDs2Feb 2026173Change-9New domains9Deleted2TLDs2Jan 2026182Change-10New domains8Deleted7TLDs2Dec 2025192Change-8New domains10Deleted8TLDs2Nov 2025200Change+2New domains10Deleted2TLDs2Oct 2025198Change-7New domains6Deleted8TLDs2Sep 2025205Change-10New domains8Deleted8TLDs2Aug 2025215Change+3New domains11Deleted4TLDs2Jul 2025212Change-5New domains7Deleted6TLDs2Jun 2025217Change-10New domains10Deleted13TLDs2May 2025227Change-2New domains14Deleted5TLDs2Apr 2025229Change+6New domains11Deleted5TLDs2Mar 2025223Change-4New domains11Deleted8TLDs2Feb 2025227Change-4New domains10Deleted5TLDs2Jan 2025231Change+3New domains12Deleted7TLDs2Dec 2024228Change-20New domains7Deleted21TLDs2Nov 2024248Change-24New domains10Deleted24TLDs2Oct 2024272Change-7New domains16Deleted18TLDs2Sep 2024279Change-17New domains6Deleted13TLDs2Aug 2024296Change-19New domains7Deleted10TLDs2Jul 2024315Change-4New domains11Deleted7TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1701-mo change+712-mo change-29New domains14Share of TLD<0.1%.net131-mo change-112-mo change-5New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%