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registrar · BraveNames, LLC · IANA 1596

BraveNames, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

BraveNames was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 1.44 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 120 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

BraveNames held 366 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
366
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

BraveNames’ 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, BraveNames customers renewed 51% of their expiring domains: 69 renewed, 65 let go. More domains moved away from BraveNames than to it: 0 in, 74 out.

69 renewed65 let go
0 moved in74 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

BraveNames’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 2026366Change+20New domains26Deleted4TLDs2May 2026346Change+25New domains37Deleted6TLDs2Apr 2026321Change+36New domains49Deleted7TLDs2Mar 2026285Change+43New domains56Deleted4TLDs2Feb 2026242Change+39New domains46Deleted4TLDs2Jan 2026203Change-3New domains11Deleted6TLDs2Dec 2025206Change-1New domains6Deleted4TLDs2Nov 2025207Change+4New domains12Deleted2TLDs2Oct 2025203Change-4New domains7Deleted2TLDs2Sep 2025207Change-8New domains8Deleted8TLDs2Aug 2025215Change+3New domains16Deleted8TLDs2Jul 2025212Change-2New domains15Deleted10TLDs2Jun 2025214Change-3New domains10Deleted10TLDs2May 2025217Change-3New domains14Deleted9TLDs2Apr 2025220Change-13New domains7Deleted15TLDs2Mar 2025233Change-7New domains7Deleted3TLDs2Feb 2025240Change-4New domains13Deleted6TLDs2Jan 2025244Change+2New domains10Deleted4TLDs2Dec 2024242Change-15New domains12Deleted21TLDs2Nov 2024257Change-19New domains9Deleted22TLDs2Oct 2024276Change-4New domains14Deleted10TLDs2Sep 2024280Change-10New domains6Deleted8TLDs2Aug 2024290Change-11New domains7Deleted9TLDs2Jul 2024301Change+2New domains13Deleted3TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com3491-mo change+2312-mo change+150New domains26Share of TLD<0.1%.net171-mo change-312-mo change+2New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%