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registrar · SNAPNAMES 28, LLC · IANA 1269

SNAPNAMES 28, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 28 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 952 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 28 held 1,181 domains in May 2026. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,181
domains, May 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 28’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 28 customers renewed 17% of their expiring domains: 208 renewed, 1,040 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 28 than to it: 0 in, 401 out.

208 renewed1,040 let go
0 moved in401 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

May 2026 to May 2026
to
May 2026 to May 2026

SNAPNAMES 28’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

May 20261,181Change-56New domains45Deleted82TLDs2

domains by tld

May 2026
.com1,1411-mo change-5112-mo change-622New domains44Share of TLD<0.1%.net401-mo change-512-mo change-67New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%