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registrar · SNAPNAMES 98, LLC · IANA 1053

SNAPNAMES 98, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 98 was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 1.42 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 123 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 98 held 437 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
437
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 98’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 98 customers renewed 60% of their expiring domains: 75 renewed, 50 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 98 than to it: 0 in, 109 out.

75 renewed50 let go
0 moved in109 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

SNAPNAMES 98’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 2026437Change+32New domains45Deleted1TLDs2May 2026405Change+38New domains48Deleted3TLDs2Apr 2026367Change+43New domains61Deleted6TLDs2Mar 2026324Change+70New domains82Deleted5TLDs2Feb 2026254Change+36New domains54Deleted8TLDs2Jan 2026218Change+7New domains19Deleted4TLDs2Dec 2025211Change-3New domains9Deleted3TLDs2Nov 2025214Change+3New domains15Deleted4TLDs2Oct 2025211Change-2New domains14Deleted4TLDs2Sep 2025213Change+2New domains8Deleted2TLDs2Aug 2025211Change-2New domains14Deleted4TLDs2Jul 2025213Change-3New domains9Deleted6TLDs2Jun 2025216Change-8New domains5Deleted7TLDs2May 2025224Change0New domains13Deleted8TLDs2Apr 2025224Change-10New domains13Deleted14TLDs2Mar 2025234Change-13New domains10Deleted5TLDs2Feb 2025247Change-5New domains7Deleted6TLDs2Jan 2025252Change-2New domains12Deleted3TLDs2Dec 2024254Change-6New domains18Deleted20TLDs2Nov 2024260Change-25New domains12Deleted19TLDs2Oct 2024285Change-11New domains9Deleted10TLDs2Sep 2024296Change-11New domains9Deleted7TLDs2Aug 2024307Change-18New domains11Deleted15TLDs2Jul 2024325Change-11New domains11Deleted14TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com4151-mo change+2912-mo change+215New domains42Share of TLD<0.1%.net221-mo change+312-mo change+6New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%