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registrar · SouthNames, LLC · IANA 1644

SouthNames, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SouthNames 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 756 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SouthNames held 844 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
844
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SouthNames’ 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, SouthNames customers renewed 22% of their expiring domains: 110 renewed, 393 let go. More domains moved away from SouthNames than to it: 0 in, 228 out.

110 renewed393 let go
0 moved in228 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 2026844Change-33New domains35Deleted46TLDs2May 2026877Change-29New domains36Deleted55TLDs2Apr 2026906Change-39New domains60Deleted74TLDs2Mar 2026945Change-17New domains54Deleted66TLDs2Feb 2026962Change+14New domains57Deleted27TLDs2Jan 2026948Change-3New domains53Deleted44TLDs2Dec 2025951Change+4New domains65Deleted39TLDs2Nov 2025947Change-11New domains36Deleted27TLDs2Oct 2025958Change+4New domains49Deleted8TLDs2Sep 2025954Change+10New domains42Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2025944Change+31New domains50Deleted4TLDs2Jul 2025913Change+38New domains54Deleted3TLDs2Jun 2025875Change+28New domains60Deleted20TLDs2May 2025847Change+86New domains99Deleted11TLDs2Apr 2025761Change+78New domains95Deleted10TLDs2Mar 2025683Change+24New domains47Deleted6TLDs2Feb 2025659Change+51New domains78Deleted5TLDs2Jan 2025608Change+67New domains99Deleted13TLDs2Dec 2024541Change+44New domains73Deleted29TLDs2Nov 2024497Change+26New domains64Deleted29TLDs2Oct 2024471Change+44New domains71Deleted16TLDs2Sep 2024427Change+37New domains52Deleted14TLDs2Aug 2024390Change-30New domains17Deleted29TLDs2Jul 2024420Change-27New domains10Deleted25TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com8111-mo change-3312-mo change-21New domains33Share of TLD<0.1%.net331-mo change012-mo change-10New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%