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registrar · SNAPNAMES 18, LLC · IANA 1038

SNAPNAMES 18, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 18 was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.46 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 908 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 18 held 905 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
905
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 18’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 18 customers renewed 15% of their expiring domains: 191 renewed, 1,044 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 18 than to it: 0 in, 331 out.

191 renewed1,044 let go
0 moved in331 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

SNAPNAMES 18’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 2026905Change-65New domains8Deleted59TLDs2May 2026970Change-82New domains15Deleted81TLDs2Apr 20261,052Change-73New domains13Deleted73TLDs2Mar 20261,125Change-81New domains12Deleted75TLDs2Feb 20261,206Change-91New domains17Deleted67TLDs2Jan 20261,297Change-41New domains79Deleted104TLDs2Dec 20251,338Change+1New domains101Deleted75TLDs2Nov 20251,337Change-70New domains49Deleted89TLDs2Oct 20251,407Change-92New domains60Deleted100TLDs2Sep 20251,499Change-83New domains50Deleted99TLDs2Aug 20251,582Change-87New domains51Deleted97TLDs2Jul 20251,669Change-107New domains54Deleted125TLDs2Jun 20251,776Change-26New domains83Deleted55TLDs2May 20251,802Change-6New domains114Deleted71TLDs2Apr 20251,808Change-8New domains100Deleted71TLDs2Mar 20251,816Change-22New domains84Deleted60TLDs2Feb 20251,838Change+9New domains83Deleted60TLDs2Jan 20251,829Change+16New domains106Deleted56TLDs2Dec 20241,813Change+6New domains96Deleted67TLDs2Nov 20241,807Change+62New domains139Deleted45TLDs2Oct 20241,745Change+88New domains153Deleted47TLDs2Sep 20241,657Change+6New domains115Deleted89TLDs2Aug 20241,651Change+45New domains140Deleted77TLDs2Jul 20241,606Change-3New domains117Deleted102TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com8701-mo change-6212-mo change-809New domains8Share of TLD<0.1%.net351-mo change-312-mo change-62New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%