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registrar · SNAPNAMES 53, LLC · IANA 1283

SNAPNAMES 53, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 53 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 131 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 53 held 414 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
414
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 53’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 53 customers renewed 56% of their expiring domains: 96 renewed, 74 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 53 than to it: 0 in, 93 out.

96 renewed74 let go
0 moved in93 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

SNAPNAMES 53’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 2026414Change+29New domains36Deleted2TLDs2May 2026385Change+27New domains40Deleted3TLDs2Apr 2026358Change+34New domains50Deleted7TLDs2Mar 2026324Change+56New domains71Deleted7TLDs2Feb 2026268Change+41New domains47Deleted5TLDs2Jan 2026227Change-3New domains13Deleted5TLDs2Dec 2025230Change-7New domains10Deleted10TLDs2Nov 2025237Change-1New domains7Deleted3TLDs2Oct 2025238Change-3New domains11Deleted5TLDs2Sep 2025241Change-14New domains7Deleted13TLDs2Aug 2025255Change-4New domains10Deleted9TLDs2Jul 2025259Change-2New domains14Deleted5TLDs2Jun 2025261Change-7New domains9Deleted15TLDs2May 2025268Change+5New domains16Deleted7TLDs2Apr 2025263Change+6New domains14Deleted3TLDs2Mar 2025257Change-10New domains9Deleted5TLDs2Feb 2025267Change-11New domains12Deleted5TLDs2Jan 2025278Change-9New domains18Deleted12TLDs2Dec 2024287Change-24New domains8Deleted27TLDs2Nov 2024311Change-33New domains10Deleted37TLDs2Oct 2024344Change-21New domains6Deleted15TLDs2Sep 2024365Change-23New domains4Deleted11TLDs2Aug 2024388Change-23New domains12Deleted18TLDs2Jul 2024411Change-13New domains12Deleted17TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com3891-mo change+2512-mo change+149New domains34Share of TLD<0.1%.net251-mo change+412-mo change+4New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%