Backstop Names, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar
drop catching
Backstop Names was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.39 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 912 domains.
Backstop Names held 1,029 domains in June 2026, under 0.1% of all domains in generic TLDs. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.
- <0.1%
- 1,029
- 11th
Backstop Names’ share of the 2 TLDs it sells most in
June 2026Where 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.
do customers stay?
July 2025 to June 2026From July 2025 to June 2026, Backstop Names customers renewed 15% of their expiring domains: 164 renewed, 937 let go. More domains moved away from Backstop Names than to it: 0 in, 327 out.