registrar · Curveball Domains LLC · IANA 2817

Curveball Domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Curveball Domains was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.38 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 903 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Curveball Domains held 988 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%
market share, June 2026
988
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Curveball Domains’ share of the 2 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

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, Curveball Domains customers renewed 15% of their expiring domains: 171 renewed, 954 let go. More domains moved away from Curveball Domains than to it: 0 in, 318 out.

171 renewed954 let go
0 moved in318 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 2026988Change-65New domains30Deleted78TLDs2May 20261,053Change-52New domains48Deleted84TLDs2Apr 20261,105Change-52New domains42Deleted77TLDs2Mar 20261,157Change-55New domains49Deleted90TLDs2Feb 20261,212Change-45New domains59Deleted71TLDs2Jan 20261,257Change-15New domains72Deleted64TLDs2Dec 20251,272Change-31New domains83Deleted83TLDs2Nov 20251,303Change-29New domains50Deleted59TLDs2Oct 20251,332Change-72New domains62Deleted89TLDs2Sep 20251,404Change-65New domains47Deleted75TLDs2Aug 20251,469Change-59New domains60Deleted86TLDs2Jul 20251,528Change-71New domains56Deleted98TLDs2Jun 20251,599Change-32New domains63Deleted47TLDs2May 20251,631Change+2New domains119Deleted67TLDs2Apr 20251,629Change-10New domains84Deleted67TLDs2Mar 20251,639Change-22New domains108Deleted76TLDs2Feb 20251,661Change-2New domains93Deleted75TLDs2Jan 20251,663Change-25New domains106Deleted98TLDs2Dec 20241,688Change+11New domains119Deleted81TLDs2Nov 20241,677Change-7New domains101Deleted84TLDs2Oct 20241,684Change-43New domains102Deleted118TLDs2Sep 20241,727Change-16New domains110Deleted99TLDs2Aug 20241,743Change-31New domains108Deleted122TLDs2Jul 20241,774Change-42New domains112Deleted119TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026