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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 1,673 domains in October 2024. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,673
domains, October 2024
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

October 2024 to October 2024
to
Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

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

month by month

Oct 20241,673Change+52New domains143Deleted71TLDs2

domains by tld

October 2024
.com1,5841-mo change+4712-mo change+2New domains136Share of TLD<0.1%.net891-mo change+512-mo change0New domains7Share of TLD<0.1%