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registrar · Gname 246 Inc · IANA 4259

Gname 246, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 246 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 778,379 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,395 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 246 held 1,231 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
1,231
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 246’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 246 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 1 renewed, 1,356 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 246 than to it: 0 in, 720 out.

1 renewed1,356 let go
0 moved in720 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 246’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,231Change-89New domains71Deleted128TLDs3May 20261,320Change-128New domains92Deleted158TLDs3Apr 20261,448Change-76New domains75Deleted105TLDs3Mar 20261,524Change-152New domains88Deleted189TLDs3Feb 20261,676Change-107New domains87Deleted144TLDs3Jan 20261,783Change-162New domains82Deleted167TLDs3Dec 20251,945Change-128New domains62Deleted114TLDs3Nov 20252,073Change-99New domains75Deleted100TLDs3Oct 20252,172Change-62New domains85Deleted105TLDs3Sep 20252,234Change-33New domains83Deleted92TLDs3Aug 20252,267Change-79New domains58Deleted96TLDs3Jul 20252,346Change-8New domains91Deleted44TLDs3Jun 20252,354Change+35New domains136Deleted33TLDs3May 20252,319Change+203New domains258Deleted30TLDs3Apr 20252,116Change+95New domains166Deleted17TLDs3Mar 20252,021Change+148New domains211Deleted55TLDs3Feb 20251,873Change+98New domains145Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,775Change+231New domains267Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,544Change+223New domains245Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,321Change+229New domains244Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,092Change+211New domains190Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024881Change+167New domains153Deleted0TLDs3Aug 2024714Change+114New domains120Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024600Change+119New domains107Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1131-mo change-7012-mo change-888New domains67Share of TLD<0.1%.net801-mo change-712-mo change-37New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.org381-mo change-1212-mo change-198New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%