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registrar · BB-Online UK Limited · IANA 134

BB-Online UK, a Nominate drop-catch registrar

drop catching

BB-Online UK was one of Nominate’s 3 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 15.7 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 503 domains.

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BB-Online UK held 9,076 domains in January 2025. It holds domains in 186 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

9,076
domains, January 2025
19th
Nominate family, 2012-round TLDs

BB-Online UK’s share of the 10 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

In June 2026, BB-Online UK held 0.0% of all domains across its 16 largest TLDs.

  1. Verisign
  2. .com<0.1%
  3. .net<0.1%
  1. Public Interest Registry
  2. .org<0.1%
  1. Identity Digital
  2. .info<0.1%
  3. .aero0.5%
  1. Dot London Domains Limited
  2. .london0.4%
  1. GoDaddy Registry
  2. .biz<0.1%
  1. ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa
  2. .africa0.1%
  1. Nominet UK
  2. .wales0.4%
  1. GMO
  2. .shop<0.1%

The tick marks its 0.0% across its 16 largest TLDs. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

Where Nominate ranks in the new TLDs

By June 2026, Nominate’s registrars held 1,106 domains in the new TLDs from ICANN’s 2012 round, 0.0% of them, 19th 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. Nominate0.0%

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, BB-Online UK customers renewed 94% of their expiring domains: 7,323 renewed, 476 let go. More domains moved away from BB-Online UK than to it: 481 in, 997 out.

7,323 renewed476 let go
481 moved in997 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2025 to January 2025
to
Jan 2025 to Jan 2025

BB-Online UK’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jan 20259,076Change-577New domains125Deleted643TLDs186

domains by tld

January 2025
.com5,7341-mo change-55912-mo change-351New domains44Share of TLD<0.1%.net9091-mo change-1312-mo change-41New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.org8761-mo change-512-mo change-10New domains4Share of TLD<0.1%.info2041-mo change-412-mo change-27New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%.biz1721-mo change-1012-mo change-46New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%.london1541-mo change+112-mo change-2New domains1Share of TLD0.5%.africa841-mo change012-mo change-10New domains1Share of TLD0.2%.wales511-mo change+212-mo change+4New domains2Share of TLD0.4%.asia491-mo change012-mo change-5New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.cymru431-mo change012-mo change+2New domains0Share of TLD0.5%.name421-mo change-412-mo change-13New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%.aero401-mo change+112-mo change+13New domains1Share of TLD0.3%.tel401-mo change+112-mo change-7New domains1Share of TLD0.1%.mobi351-mo change012-mo change-1New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%.shop321-mo change+1212-mo change-6New domains17Share of TLD<0.1%.wed321-mo change012-mo change0New domains0Share of TLD80.0%.online251-mo change-112-mo change-7New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%.pub241-mo change012-mo change0New domains0Share of TLD0.1%.app171-mo change-112-mo change-1New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%.scot171-mo change012-mo change0New domains0Share of TLD0.1%.creditunion161-mo change012-mo change-2New domains0Share of TLD3.5%.global161-mo change012-mo change-2New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%.xyz161-mo change+612-mo change-3New domains9Share of TLD<0.1%.ltd121-mo change+112-mo change-1New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%.today121-mo change012-mo change0New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%