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registrar · SNAPNAMES 5, LLC · IANA 1046

SNAPNAMES 5, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 5 was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.45 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 937 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 5 held 1,087 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
1,087
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 5’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 5 customers renewed 15% of their expiring domains: 171 renewed, 963 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 5 than to it: 0 in, 352 out.

171 renewed963 let go
0 moved in352 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

SNAPNAMES 5’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,087Change-35New domains57Deleted66TLDs2May 20261,122Change-49New domains52Deleted82TLDs2Apr 20261,171Change-53New domains41Deleted81TLDs2Mar 20261,224Change-31New domains60Deleted79TLDs2Feb 20261,255Change-30New domains60Deleted67TLDs2Jan 20261,285Change-32New domains94Deleted97TLDs2Dec 20251,317Change-4New domains83Deleted75TLDs2Nov 20251,321Change-46New domains67Deleted77TLDs2Oct 20251,367Change-55New domains51Deleted70TLDs2Sep 20251,422Change-80New domains47Deleted85TLDs2Aug 20251,502Change-71New domains54Deleted80TLDs2Jul 20251,573Change-85New domains71Deleted105TLDs2Jun 20251,658Change-49New domains71Deleted55TLDs2May 20251,707Change+16New domains119Deleted57TLDs2Apr 20251,691Change-2New domains113Deleted76TLDs2Mar 20251,693Change-24New domains87Deleted78TLDs2Feb 20251,717Change-8New domains99Deleted73TLDs2Jan 20251,725Change+17New domains106Deleted75TLDs2Dec 20241,708Change+6New domains87Deleted71TLDs2Nov 20241,702Change+13New domains116Deleted71TLDs2Oct 20241,689Change+18New domains120Deleted82TLDs2Sep 20241,671Change0New domains120Deleted97TLDs2Aug 20241,671Change-41New domains132Deleted130TLDs2Jul 20241,712Change-24New domains138Deleted136TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,0511-mo change-3412-mo change-507New domains54Share of TLD<0.1%.net361-mo change-112-mo change-64New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%