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registrar · Straight 8 Domains, LLC · IANA 2352

Straight 8 Domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Straight 8 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 →

Straight 8 Domains held 266 domains in January 2026. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

266
domains, January 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Straight 8 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, Straight 8 Domains customers renewed 55% of their expiring domains: 117 renewed, 97 let go. More domains moved away from Straight 8 Domains than to it: 0 in, 105 out.

117 renewed97 let go
0 moved in105 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2026 to January 2026
to
Jan 2026 to Jan 2026

Straight 8 Domains’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jan 2026266Change0New domains13Deleted7TLDs2

domains by tld

January 2026
.com2471-mo change-112-mo change-245New domains12Share of TLD<0.1%.net191-mo change+112-mo change-11New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%