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registrar · Free Drop Zone LLC · IANA 2848

Free Drop Zone, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Free Drop Zone 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 125 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Free Drop Zone held 384 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
384
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Free Drop 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, Free Drop Zone customers renewed 55% of their expiring domains: 132 renewed, 106 let go. More domains moved away from Free Drop Zone than to it: 0 in, 127 out.

132 renewed106 let go
0 moved in127 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 2026384Change+11New domains32Deleted9TLDs2May 2026373Change+21New domains36Deleted5TLDs2Apr 2026352Change+19New domains35Deleted5TLDs2Mar 2026333Change+29New domains47Deleted4TLDs2Feb 2026304Change+13New domains34Deleted12TLDs2Jan 2026291Change-8New domains11Deleted10TLDs2Dec 2025299Change-1New domains14Deleted3TLDs2Nov 2025300Change-19New domains7Deleted13TLDs2Oct 2025319Change-11New domains11Deleted9TLDs2Sep 2025330Change-14New domains11Deleted10TLDs2Aug 2025344Change-10New domains10Deleted18TLDs2Jul 2025354Change-8New domains9Deleted8TLDs2Jun 2025362Change0New domains17Deleted14TLDs2May 2025362Change-7New domains14Deleted14TLDs2Apr 2025369Change-12New domains13Deleted13TLDs2Mar 2025381Change-18New domains12Deleted12TLDs2Feb 2025399Change-20New domains4Deleted7TLDs2Jan 2025419Change-26New domains12Deleted18TLDs2Dec 2024445Change-28New domains11Deleted30TLDs2Nov 2024473Change-41New domains15Deleted46TLDs2Oct 2024514Change-29New domains9Deleted23TLDs2Sep 2024543Change-28New domains11Deleted27TLDs2Aug 2024571Change-21New domains12Deleted18TLDs2Jul 2024592Change-34New domains3Deleted25TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com3551-mo change+1112-mo change+32New domains31Share of TLD<0.1%.net291-mo change012-mo change-10New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%