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registrar · Gname 196 Inc · IANA 4209

Gname 196, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 196 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 793,511 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,515 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 196 held 1,214 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
1,214
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 196’s share of the 3 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026
  1. Verisign
  2. .com<0.1%
  3. .net<0.1%
  1. Public Interest Registry
  2. .org<0.1%

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.

  1. Namecheap19.1%
  2. GMO Internet Group14.3%
  3. GoDaddy12.6%
  4. Dynadot7.4%
  5. NameSilo5.0%
  6. Gname2.7%

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 196 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,252 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 196 than to it: 0 in, 739 out.

0 renewed1,252 let go
0 moved in739 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 196’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,214Change-93New domains82Deleted125TLDs3May 20261,307Change-95New domains85Deleted132TLDs3Apr 20261,402Change-79New domains72Deleted95TLDs3Mar 20261,481Change-122New domains66Deleted143TLDs3Feb 20261,603Change-118New domains55Deleted123TLDs3Jan 20261,721Change-137New domains65Deleted134TLDs3Dec 20251,858Change-117New domains79Deleted121TLDs3Nov 20251,975Change-121New domains75Deleted108TLDs3Oct 20252,096Change-42New domains98Deleted123TLDs3Sep 20252,138Change-43New domains77Deleted91TLDs3Aug 20252,181Change-91New domains65Deleted97TLDs3Jul 20252,272Change-37New domains85Deleted60TLDs3Jun 20252,309Change+88New domains209Deleted39TLDs3May 20252,221Change+180New domains213Deleted21TLDs3Apr 20252,041Change+90New domains176Deleted34TLDs3Mar 20251,951Change+123New domains204Deleted59TLDs3Feb 20251,828Change+101New domains113Deleted1TLDs3Jan 20251,727Change+182New domains214Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,545Change+196New domains225Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,349Change+188New domains195Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,161Change+161New domains186Deleted0TLDs3Sep 20241,000Change+223New domains197Deleted0TLDs3Aug 2024777Change+151New domains142Deleted0TLDs3Jul 2024626Change+113New domains123Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1431-mo change-9012-mo change-1,013New domains79Share of TLD<0.1%.net651-mo change-312-mo change-45New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.org61-mo change012-mo change-37New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%