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registrar · Backstop Names LLC · IANA 2807

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.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Backstop Names held 1,681 domains in February 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,681
domains, February 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Backstop Names’ 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, 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.

164 renewed937 let go
0 moved in327 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

February 2025 to February 2025
to
Feb 2025 to Feb 2025

Backstop Names’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Feb 20251,681Change-7New domains94Deleted71TLDs2

domains by tld

February 2025
.com1,5791-mo change-1212-mo change-80New domains87Share of TLD<0.1%.net1021-mo change+512-mo change-3New domains7Share of TLD<0.1%