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registrar · Deleting Name Zone LLC · IANA 2820

Deleting Name Zone, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Deleting Name Zone was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 2,451 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Deleting Name Zone held 3,414 domains in December 2024. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

3,414
domains, December 2024
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Deleting Name Zone’s 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, Deleting Name Zone customers renewed 12% of their expiring domains: 294 renewed, 2,190 let go. More domains moved away from Deleting Name Zone than to it: 0 in, 748 out.

294 renewed2,190 let go
0 moved in748 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

December 2024 to December 2024
to
Dec 2024 to Dec 2024

Deleting Name Zone’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Dec 20243,414Change+53New domains222Deleted145TLDs2

domains by tld

December 2024
.com3,1881-mo change+5212-mo change+578New domains212Share of TLD<0.1%.net2261-mo change+112-mo change+70New domains10Share of TLD<0.1%