registrar · Name Connection Area LLC · IANA 2861

Name Connection Area, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Name Connection Area was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 22.1 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 999 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Name Connection Area held 1,011 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
1,011
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Name Connection Area’s share of the 2 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

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, Name Connection Area customers renewed 19% of their expiring domains: 233 renewed, 1,003 let go. More domains moved away from Name Connection Area than to it: 0 in, 318 out.

233 renewed1,003 let go
0 moved in318 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 20261,011Change-79New domains15Deleted70TLDs2May 20261,090Change-96New domains11Deleted87TLDs2Apr 20261,186Change-87New domains15Deleted88TLDs2Mar 20261,273Change-100New domains5Deleted87TLDs2Feb 20261,373Change-78New domains31Deleted63TLDs2Jan 20261,451Change-12New domains99Deleted80TLDs2Dec 20251,463Change-4New domains109Deleted102TLDs2Nov 20251,467Change-33New domains93Deleted93TLDs2Oct 20251,500Change-33New domains75Deleted84TLDs2Sep 20251,533Change-47New domains62Deleted72TLDs2Aug 20251,580Change-44New domains54Deleted75TLDs2Jul 20251,624Change-87New domains55Deleted102TLDs2Jun 20251,711Change-74New domains67Deleted93TLDs2May 20251,785Change-150New domains119Deleted226TLDs2Apr 20251,935Change-204New domains95Deleted280TLDs2Mar 20252,139Change-252New domains95Deleted293TLDs2Feb 20252,391Change-174New domains99Deleted255TLDs2Jan 20252,565Change-198New domains110Deleted277TLDs2Dec 20242,763Change-193New domains86Deleted273TLDs2Nov 20242,956Change-203New domains99Deleted259TLDs2Oct 20243,159Change-186New domains95Deleted271TLDs2Sep 20243,345Change-151New domains125Deleted237TLDs2Aug 20243,496Change-222New domains98Deleted294TLDs2Jul 20243,718Change-230New domains109Deleted302TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026