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registrar · Gname 197 Inc · IANA 4210

Gname 197, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 197 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 792,112 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,590 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 197 held 1,242 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
1,242
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 197’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 197 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,361 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 197 than to it: 0 in, 761 out.

0 renewed1,361 let go
0 moved in761 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 197’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,242Change-144New domains68Deleted166TLDs3May 20261,386Change-105New domains74Deleted147TLDs3Apr 20261,491Change-47New domains85Deleted84TLDs3Mar 20261,538Change-146New domains67Deleted165TLDs3Feb 20261,684Change-130New domains50Deleted131TLDs3Jan 20261,814Change-120New domains77Deleted116TLDs3Dec 20251,934Change-110New domains93Deleted124TLDs3Nov 20252,044Change-111New domains71Deleted115TLDs3Oct 20252,155Change-68New domains103Deleted124TLDs3Sep 20252,223Change-70New domains87Deleted116TLDs3Aug 20252,293Change-116New domains70Deleted128TLDs3Jul 20252,409Change-19New domains83Deleted34TLDs3Jun 20252,428Change+88New domains225Deleted33TLDs3May 20252,340Change+147New domains196Deleted30TLDs3Apr 20252,193Change+109New domains198Deleted37TLDs3Mar 20252,084Change+128New domains205Deleted76TLDs3Feb 20251,956Change+96New domains118Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,860Change+209New domains239Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,651Change+221New domains234Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,430Change+184New domains178Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,246Change+144New domains177Deleted0TLDs3Sep 20241,102Change+248New domains224Deleted0TLDs3Aug 2024854Change+176New domains179Deleted0TLDs3Jul 2024678Change+137New domains137Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1801-mo change-13512-mo change-1,059New domains64Share of TLD<0.1%.net571-mo change-912-mo change-83New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.org51-mo change012-mo change-44New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%