registrar · Sterling Domains LLC · IANA 2886

Sterling Domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Sterling Domains was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 1.4 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 124 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Sterling Domains held 211 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
211
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Sterling Domains’ 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, Sterling Domains customers renewed 53% of their expiring domains: 85 renewed, 76 let go. More domains moved away from Sterling Domains than to it: 0 in, 91 out.

85 renewed76 let go
0 moved in91 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

Sterling Domains’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 2026211Change-5New domains8Deleted8TLDs2May 2026216Change-2New domains14Deleted7TLDs2Apr 2026218Change+4New domains11Deleted3TLDs2Mar 2026214Change-10New domains12Deleted12TLDs2Feb 2026224Change-7New domains8Deleted4TLDs2Jan 2026231Change-4New domains9Deleted11TLDs2Dec 2025235Change-4New domains13Deleted8TLDs2Nov 2025239Change+5New domains11Deleted0TLDs2Oct 2025234Change-5New domains10Deleted7TLDs2Sep 2025239Change-9New domains7Deleted4TLDs2Aug 2025248Change+2New domains19Deleted6TLDs2Jul 2025246Change-2New domains7Deleted6TLDs2Jun 2025248Change-9New domains9Deleted10TLDs2May 2025257Change-9New domains16Deleted16TLDs2Apr 2025266Change-2New domains11Deleted8TLDs2Mar 2025268Change-11New domains11Deleted5TLDs2Feb 2025279Change-13New domains10Deleted12TLDs2Jan 2025292Change-14New domains11Deleted13TLDs2Dec 2024306Change-13New domains9Deleted19TLDs2Nov 2024319Change-14New domains14Deleted23TLDs2Oct 2024333Change-9New domains11Deleted11TLDs2Sep 2024342Change-18New domains4Deleted13TLDs2Aug 2024360Change-17New domains10Deleted14TLDs2Jul 2024377Change+2New domains12Deleted8TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026