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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 395 domains in May 2026. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

395
domains, May 2026
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

May 2026 to May 2026
to
May 2026 to May 2026

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

month by month

May 2026395Change+23New domains45Deleted9TLDs2

domains by tld

May 2026
.com3691-mo change+2312-mo change+52New domains44Share of TLD<0.1%.net261-mo change012-mo change-4New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%