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registrar · Gname 242 Inc · IANA 4255

Gname 242, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 242 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 780,873 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,430 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 242 held 1,183 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
1,183
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 242’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 242 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,385 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 242 than to it: 0 in, 724 out.

0 renewed1,385 let go
0 moved in724 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 242’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,183Change-140New domains70Deleted158TLDs3May 20261,323Change-122New domains76Deleted153TLDs3Apr 20261,445Change-116New domains71Deleted121TLDs3Mar 20261,561Change-125New domains77Deleted171TLDs3Feb 20261,686Change-154New domains45Deleted156TLDs3Jan 20261,840Change-139New domains76Deleted132TLDs3Dec 20251,979Change-146New domains58Deleted118TLDs3Nov 20252,125Change-110New domains76Deleted109TLDs3Oct 20252,235Change-53New domains81Deleted99TLDs3Sep 20252,288Change-40New domains104Deleted113TLDs3Aug 20252,328Change-66New domains58Deleted88TLDs3Jul 20252,394Change+9New domains106Deleted53TLDs3Jun 20252,385Change+38New domains159Deleted41TLDs3May 20252,347Change+191New domains250Deleted37TLDs3Apr 20252,156Change+138New domains207Deleted25TLDs3Mar 20252,018Change+122New domains204Deleted71TLDs3Feb 20251,896Change+141New domains155Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,755Change+198New domains238Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,557Change+250New domains262Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,307Change+217New domains211Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,090Change+173New domains172Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024917Change+187New domains176Deleted0TLDs3Aug 2024730Change+99New domains109Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024631Change+134New domains137Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,0701-mo change-10612-mo change-943New domains67Share of TLD<0.1%.net681-mo change-1812-mo change-63New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.org451-mo change-1612-mo change-196New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%