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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 1,745 domains in October 2024. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,745
domains, October 2024
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

October 2024 to October 2024
to
Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

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

month by month

Oct 20241,745Change+88New domains153Deleted47TLDs2

domains by tld

October 2024
.com1,6251-mo change+8112-mo change+120New domains143Share of TLD<0.1%.net1201-mo change+712-mo change+11New domains10Share of TLD<0.1%