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registrar · SNAPNAMES 97, LLC · IANA 1060

SNAPNAMES 97, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 97 was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 1.43 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 111 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 97 held 411 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
411
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 97’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 97 customers renewed 55% of their expiring domains: 68 renewed, 56 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 97 than to it: 0 in, 101 out.

68 renewed56 let go
0 moved in101 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

SNAPNAMES 97’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 2026411Change+30New domains42Deleted4TLDs2May 2026381Change+37New domains53Deleted4TLDs2Apr 2026344Change+41New domains64Deleted9TLDs2Mar 2026303Change+77New domains86Deleted6TLDs2Feb 2026226Change+32New domains38Deleted6TLDs2Jan 2026194Change-5New domains7Deleted4TLDs2Dec 2025199Change-8New domains9Deleted8TLDs2Nov 2025207Change+2New domains9Deleted1TLDs2Oct 2025205Change-2New domains8Deleted4TLDs2Sep 2025207Change0New domains12Deleted2TLDs2Aug 2025207Change+5New domains13Deleted2TLDs2Jul 2025202Change-7New domains5Deleted6TLDs2Jun 2025209Change-13New domains6Deleted13TLDs2May 2025222Change-7New domains14Deleted17TLDs2Apr 2025229Change-15New domains8Deleted16TLDs2Mar 2025244Change-3New domains11Deleted3TLDs2Feb 2025247Change-10New domains9Deleted7TLDs2Jan 2025257Change-9New domains17Deleted11TLDs2Dec 2024266Change-18New domains10Deleted21TLDs2Nov 2024284Change-22New domains5Deleted19TLDs2Oct 2024306Change-18New domains9Deleted20TLDs2Sep 2024324Change-3New domains9Deleted6TLDs2Aug 2024327Change-7New domains8Deleted5TLDs2Jul 2024334Change-5New domains9Deleted7TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com3931-mo change+2912-mo change+204New domains41Share of TLD<0.1%.net181-mo change+112-mo change-2New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%