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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 427 domains in September 2024. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

427
domains, September 2024
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

September 2024 to September 2024
to
Sep 2024 to Sep 2024

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

month by month

Sep 2024427Change+37New domains52Deleted14TLDs2

domains by tld

September 2024
.com3971-mo change+3412-mo change-375New domains50Share of TLD<0.1%.net301-mo change+312-mo change-25New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%