registrar · Gname 172 Inc · IANA 4185

Gname 172, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 172 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 801,556 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,582 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 172 held 1,300 domains in June 2026, under 0.1% of all domains in generic TLDs. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

<0.1%
market share, June 2026
1,300
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 172’s share of the 3 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 Gname ranks in the new TLDs

By June 2026, Gname’s registrars held 1,589,715 domains in the new TLDs from ICANN’s 2012 round, 2.7% of them, ninth among registrar groups. Namecheap’s registrars held the most: 11,276,866.

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, Gname 172 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 1 renewed, 1,313 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 172 than to it: 0 in, 709 out.

1 renewed1,313 let go
0 moved in709 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 172’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,300Change-96New domains91Deleted130TLDs3May 20261,396Change-103New domains88Deleted159TLDs3Apr 20261,499Change-72New domains71Deleted98TLDs3Mar 20261,571Change-155New domains53Deleted163TLDs3Feb 20261,726Change-114New domains62Deleted130TLDs3Jan 20261,840Change-97New domains95Deleted134TLDs3Dec 20251,937Change-97New domains79Deleted109TLDs3Nov 20252,034Change-115New domains80Deleted124TLDs3Oct 20252,149Change-48New domains122Deleted115TLDs3Sep 20252,197Change-48New domains82Deleted98TLDs3Aug 20252,245Change-77New domains71Deleted107TLDs3Jul 20252,322Change-27New domains70Deleted44TLDs3Jun 20252,349Change+117New domains235Deleted31TLDs3May 20252,232Change+139New domains198Deleted25TLDs3Apr 20252,093Change+118New domains177Deleted30TLDs3Mar 20251,975Change+113New domains206Deleted70TLDs3Feb 20251,862Change+101New domains127Deleted1TLDs3Jan 20251,761Change+217New domains247Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,544Change+190New domains209Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,354Change+188New domains197Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,166Change+159New domains175Deleted0TLDs3Sep 20241,007Change+228New domains204Deleted0TLDs3Aug 2024779Change+154New domains147Deleted0TLDs3Jul 2024625Change+124New domains124Deleted0TLDs2