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registrar · Namestop LLC · IANA 2875

Namestop, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Namestop was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 3.99 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 2,306 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Namestop held 1,998 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
1,998
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Namestop’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, Namestop customers renewed 13% of their expiring domains: 307 renewed, 2,089 let go. More domains moved away from Namestop than to it: 0 in, 738 out.

307 renewed2,089 let go
0 moved in738 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 20261,998Change-190New domains13Deleted169TLDs2May 20262,188Change-238New domains10Deleted223TLDs2Apr 20262,426Change-201New domains15Deleted190TLDs2Mar 20262,627Change-235New domains10Deleted184TLDs2Feb 20262,862Change-172New domains59Deleted153TLDs2Jan 20263,034Change-84New domains188Deleted196TLDs2Dec 20253,118Change+20New domains236Deleted155TLDs2Nov 20253,098Change-16New domains204Deleted154TLDs2Oct 20253,114Change-84New domains166Deleted162TLDs2Sep 20253,198Change-104New domains135Deleted161TLDs2Aug 20253,302Change-104New domains118Deleted150TLDs2Jul 20253,406Change-157New domains138Deleted192TLDs2Jun 20253,563Change-49New domains151Deleted140TLDs2May 20253,612Change+32New domains276Deleted142TLDs2Apr 20253,580Change-3New domains194Deleted152TLDs2Mar 20253,583Change+40New domains273Deleted114TLDs2Feb 20253,543Change+62New domains253Deleted166TLDs2Jan 20253,481Change+28New domains249Deleted161TLDs2Dec 20243,453Change+25New domains232Deleted176TLDs2Nov 20243,428Change+46New domains288Deleted162TLDs2Oct 20243,382Change+94New domains265Deleted159TLDs2Sep 20243,288Change+22New domains226Deleted167TLDs2Aug 20243,266Change-10New domains245Deleted203TLDs2Jul 20243,276Change-59New domains228Deleted218TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,9171-mo change-18012-mo change-1,451New domains13Share of TLD<0.1%.net811-mo change-1012-mo change-114New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%