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registrar · Big Dipper Domains, LLC · IANA 2227

Big Dipper Domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Big Dipper Domains was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 1.4 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 116 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Big Dipper Domains held 253 domains in May 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

253
domains, May 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Big Dipper Domains’ 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, Big Dipper Domains customers renewed 67% of their expiring domains: 106 renewed, 52 let go. More domains moved away from Big Dipper Domains than to it: 0 in, 106 out.

106 renewed52 let go
0 moved in106 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

May 2025 to May 2025
to
May 2025 to May 2025

Big Dipper Domains’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

May 2025253Change-4New domains9Deleted10TLDs2

domains by tld

May 2025
.com2331-mo change-712-mo change-163New domains7Share of TLD<0.1%.net201-mo change+312-mo change-3New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%