registrar · WDomain 5 Ltd · IANA 4028

WDomain 5, a WDomain drop-catch registrar

drop catching

WDomain 5 was one of WDomain’s 11 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 6.27 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 2,421 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

WDomain 5 held 3,565 domains in September 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

3,565
domains, September 2025

WDomain 5’s share of the 2 TLDs it sells most in

September 2025

Verisign
.com<0.1%
.net<0.1%

The tick marks its 0.0% across its 0 largest TLDs. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

do customers stay?

October 2024 to September 2025

From October 2024 to September 2025, WDomain 5 customers renewed 16% of their expiring domains: 90 renewed, 471 let go. More domains moved away from WDomain 5 than to it: 0 in, 24 out.

90 renewed471 let go

0 moved in24 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2022 to September 2025

Jul 2022 to Sep 2025

WDomain 5’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

MonthDomainsChangeNew domainsDeletedTLDs

Sep 20253,565+86144282Sep 20253,565Change+86New domains144Deleted28TLDs2 Aug 20253,479+120173112Aug 20253,479Change+120New domains173Deleted11TLDs2 Jul 20253,359+225216202Jul 20253,359Change+225New domains216Deleted20TLDs2 Jun 20253,134+99113372Jun 20253,134Change+99New domains113Deleted37TLDs2 May 20253,035+141230542May 20253,035Change+141New domains230Deleted54TLDs2 Apr 20252,894+178304722Apr 20252,894Change+178New domains304Deleted72TLDs2 Mar 20252,716+3474641312Mar 20252,716Change+347New domains464Deleted131TLDs2 Feb 20252,369+40038552Feb 20252,369Change+400New domains385Deleted5TLDs2 Jan 20251,969+36538582Jan 20251,969Change+365New domains385Deleted8TLDs2 Dec 20241,604+183152252Dec 20241,604Change+183New domains152Deleted25TLDs2 Nov 20241,421+125182352Nov 20241,421Change+125New domains182Deleted35TLDs2 Oct 20241,296+232341452Oct 20241,296Change+232New domains341Deleted45TLDs2 Sep 20241,064+443399512Sep 20241,064Change+443New domains399Deleted51TLDs2 Aug 2024621-96152Aug 2024621Change-9New domains6Deleted15TLDs2 Jul 2024630-184212Jul 2024630Change-18New domains4Deleted21TLDs2 Jun 2024648-14491492Jun 2024648Change-144New domains9Deleted149TLDs2 May 2024792-101321322May 2024792Change-101New domains32Deleted132TLDs2 Apr 2024893-2739342Apr 2024893Change-27New domains39Deleted34TLDs2 Mar 2024920-79701722Mar 2024920Change-79New domains70Deleted172TLDs2 Feb 2024999-4247952Feb 2024999Change-42New domains47Deleted95TLDs2 Jan 20241,041-671622302Jan 20241,041Change-67New domains162Deleted230TLDs2 Dec 20231,108-14801482Dec 20231,108Change-148New domains0Deleted148TLDs2 Nov 20231,256-16261682Nov 20231,256Change-162New domains6Deleted168TLDs2 Oct 20231,418-13631382Oct 20231,418Change-136New domains3Deleted138TLDs2

domains by tld

September 2025

Sort

TLDDomains1-mo change12-mo changeNew domainsShare of TLD

.com3,561+86+2,499144<0.1%.com3,5611-mo change+8612-mo change+2,499New domains144Share of TLD<0.1%.net40+20<0.1%.net41-mo change012-mo change+2New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%