registrar · Gname 198 Inc · IANA 4211

Gname 198, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 198 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 793,291 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,531 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 198 held 1,244 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: 1,244
domains, June 2026: 9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 198’s share of the 3 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

Verisign
.com<0.1%
.net<0.1%

Public Interest Registry
.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.

Namecheap19.1%
GMO Internet Group14.3%
GoDaddy12.6%
Dynadot7.4%
NameSilo5.0%
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 198 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,297 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 198 than to it: 0 in, 704 out.

0 renewed1,297 let go

0 moved in704 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026

Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 198’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

MonthDomainsChangeNew domainsDeletedTLDs

Jun 20261,244-113591263Jun 20261,244Change-113New domains59Deleted126TLDs3 May 20261,357-73961343May 20261,357Change-73New domains96Deleted134TLDs3 Apr 20261,430-88831143Apr 20261,430Change-88New domains83Deleted114TLDs3 Mar 20261,518-144651683Mar 20261,518Change-144New domains65Deleted168TLDs3 Feb 20261,662-115611323Feb 20261,662Change-115New domains61Deleted132TLDs3 Jan 20261,777-121881253Jan 20261,777Change-121New domains88Deleted125TLDs3 Dec 20251,898-9971983Dec 20251,898Change-99New domains71Deleted98TLDs3 Nov 20251,997-123801373Nov 20251,997Change-123New domains80Deleted137TLDs3 Oct 20252,120-66931063Oct 20252,120Change-66New domains93Deleted106TLDs3 Sep 20252,186-50731083Sep 20252,186Change-50New domains73Deleted108TLDs3 Aug 20252,236-78691033Aug 20252,236Change-78New domains69Deleted103TLDs3 Jul 20252,314-1866413Jul 20252,314Change-18New domains66Deleted41TLDs3 Jun 20252,332+102246463Jun 20252,332Change+102New domains246Deleted46TLDs3 May 20252,230+154200243May 20252,230Change+154New domains200Deleted24TLDs3 Apr 20252,076+106163233Apr 20252,076Change+106New domains163Deleted23TLDs3 Mar 20251,970+98201713Mar 20251,970Change+98New domains201Deleted71TLDs3 Feb 20251,872+11013023Feb 20251,872Change+110New domains130Deleted2TLDs3 Jan 20251,762+20623503Jan 20251,762Change+206New domains235Deleted0TLDs3 Dec 20241,556+21622803Dec 20241,556Change+216New domains228Deleted0TLDs3 Nov 20241,340+18219003Nov 20241,340Change+182New domains190Deleted0TLDs3 Oct 20241,158+14916703Oct 20241,158Change+149New domains167Deleted0TLDs3 Sep 20241,009+23322003Sep 20241,009Change+233New domains220Deleted0TLDs3 Aug 2024776+13612503Aug 2024776Change+136New domains125Deleted0TLDs3 Jul 2024640+12112702Jul 2024640Change+121New domains127Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026

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TLDDomains1-mo change12-mo changeNew domainsShare of TLD

.com1,157-105-1,01558<0.1%.com1,1571-mo change-10512-mo change-1,015New domains58Share of TLD<0.1%.net78-7-451<0.1%.net781-mo change-712-mo change-45New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%.org9-1-280<0.1%.org91-mo change-112-mo change-28New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%