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registrar · Desert Sand Domains, LLC · IANA 2233

Desert Sand Domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Desert Sand 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 107 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Desert Sand Domains held 277 domains in October 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

277
domains, October 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Desert Sand 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, Desert Sand Domains customers renewed 62% of their expiring domains: 130 renewed, 80 let go. More domains moved away from Desert Sand Domains than to it: 0 in, 109 out.

130 renewed80 let go
0 moved in109 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

October 2025 to October 2025
to
Oct 2025 to Oct 2025

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

month by month

Oct 2025277Change-12New domains5Deleted5TLDs2

domains by tld

October 2025
.com2501-mo change-1012-mo change-178New domains5Share of TLD<0.1%.net271-mo change-212-mo change-4New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%