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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 2,125 domains in November 2025. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

2,125
domains, November 2025
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

November 2025 to November 2025
to
Nov 2025 to Nov 2025

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

month by month

Nov 20252,125Change-110New domains76Deleted109TLDs3

domains by tld

November 2025
.com1,7521-mo change-10812-mo change+590New domains68Share of TLD<0.1%.org2391-mo change-212-mo change+159New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.net1341-mo change012-mo change+69New domains5Share of TLD<0.1%