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registrar · Names Express LLC · IANA 2868

Names Express, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Names Express was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.38 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 917 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Names Express held 845 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
845
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Names Express’ 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, Names Express customers renewed 13% of their expiring domains: 158 renewed, 1,050 let go. More domains moved away from Names Express than to it: 0 in, 349 out.

158 renewed1,050 let go
0 moved in349 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 2026845Change-88New domains8Deleted75TLDs2May 2026933Change-90New domains10Deleted78TLDs2Apr 20261,023Change-70New domains20Deleted80TLDs2Mar 20261,093Change-96New domains7Deleted84TLDs2Feb 20261,189Change-69New domains30Deleted59TLDs2Jan 20261,258Change-44New domains80Deleted112TLDs2Dec 20251,302Change-29New domains65Deleted82TLDs2Nov 20251,331Change-83New domains47Deleted96TLDs2Oct 20251,414Change-82New domains59Deleted99TLDs2Sep 20251,496Change-81New domains61Deleted89TLDs2Aug 20251,577Change-71New domains51Deleted83TLDs2Jul 20251,648Change-109New domains53Deleted113TLDs2Jun 20251,757Change-21New domains87Deleted61TLDs2May 20251,778Change+2New domains127Deleted64TLDs2Apr 20251,776Change+2New domains91Deleted70TLDs2Mar 20251,774Change-4New domains93Deleted52TLDs2Feb 20251,778Change+26New domains106Deleted58TLDs2Jan 20251,752Change+21New domains109Deleted66TLDs2Dec 20241,731Change+27New domains99Deleted60TLDs2Nov 20241,704Change+31New domains114Deleted62TLDs2Oct 20241,673Change+52New domains143Deleted71TLDs2Sep 20241,621Change+2New domains115Deleted93TLDs2Aug 20241,619Change+43New domains159Deleted85TLDs2Jul 20241,576Change-39New domains117Deleted133TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com8101-mo change-8412-mo change-865New domains8Share of TLD<0.1%.net351-mo change-412-mo change-47New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%