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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 543 domains in September 2024. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

543
domains, September 2024
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

September 2024 to September 2024
to
Sep 2024 to Sep 2024

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

month by month

Sep 2024543Change-28New domains11Deleted27TLDs2

domains by tld

September 2024
.com4991-mo change-2912-mo change-482New domains10Share of TLD<0.1%.net441-mo change+112-mo change-22New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%