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registrar · Firstround Names LLC · IANA 2847

Firstround Names, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Firstround Names 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 106 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Firstround Names held 389 domains in February 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

389
domains, February 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Firstround 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, Firstround Names customers renewed 66% of their expiring domains: 150 renewed, 79 let go. More domains moved away from Firstround Names than to it: 0 in, 112 out.

150 renewed79 let go
0 moved in112 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

February 2025 to February 2025
to
Feb 2025 to Feb 2025

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

month by month

Feb 2025389Change-5New domains11Deleted10TLDs2

domains by tld

February 2025
.com3571-mo change-612-mo change-211New domains9Share of TLD<0.1%.net321-mo change+112-mo change-12New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%