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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 1,711 domains in June 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,711
domains, June 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Name Connection Area’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, 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

June 2025 to June 2025
to
Jun 2025 to Jun 2025

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

month by month

Jun 20251,711Change-74New domains67Deleted93TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2025
.com1,6031-mo change-6512-mo change-2,224New domains67Share of TLD<0.1%.net1081-mo change-912-mo change-13New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%