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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 233 domains in March 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

233
domains, March 2025
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

March 2025 to March 2025
to
Mar 2025 to Mar 2025

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

month by month

Mar 2025233Change-7New domains7Deleted3TLDs2

domains by tld

March 2025
.com2201-mo change-712-mo change-67New domains6Share of TLD<0.1%.net131-mo change012-mo change-6New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%