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registrar · SNAPNAMES 42, LLC · IANA 1304

SNAPNAMES 42, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 42 was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.04 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 769 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 42 held 1,003 domains in December 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,003
domains, December 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 42’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 42 customers renewed 20% of their expiring domains: 114 renewed, 453 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 42 than to it: 0 in, 205 out.

114 renewed453 let go
0 moved in205 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

December 2025 to December 2025
to
Dec 2025 to Dec 2025

SNAPNAMES 42’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Dec 20251,003Change+21New domains66Deleted35TLDs2

domains by tld

December 2025
.com9541-mo change+2412-mo change+408New domains66Share of TLD<0.1%.net491-mo change-312-mo change+15New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%