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

248
domains, August 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Sterling Domains’ 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, 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

August 2025 to August 2025
to
Aug 2025 to Aug 2025

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

month by month

Aug 2025248Change+2New domains19Deleted6TLDs2

domains by tld

August 2025
.com2251-mo change+212-mo change-111New domains17Share of TLD<0.1%.net231-mo change012-mo change-1New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%