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registrar · Shining Star Domains, LLC · IANA 2246

Shining Star Domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Shining Star Domains was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.4 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 909 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Shining Star Domains held 1,771 domains in May 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,771
domains, May 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Shining Star 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, Shining Star Domains customers renewed 14% of their expiring domains: 165 renewed, 1,006 let go. More domains moved away from Shining Star Domains than to it: 0 in, 394 out.

165 renewed1,006 let go
0 moved in394 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

May 2025 to May 2025
to
May 2025 to May 2025

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

month by month

May 20251,771Change-22New domains100Deleted67TLDs2

domains by tld

May 2025
.com1,6631-mo change-1812-mo change+134New domains98Share of TLD<0.1%.net1081-mo change-412-mo change+12New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%