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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 214 domains in November 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

214
domains, November 2025
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

November 2025 to November 2025
to
Nov 2025 to Nov 2025

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

month by month

Nov 2025214Change+3New domains15Deleted4TLDs2

domains by tld

November 2025
.com2011-mo change+512-mo change-41New domains14Share of TLD<0.1%.net131-mo change-212-mo change-5New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%