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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 881 domains in September 2024. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

881
domains, September 2024
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

September 2024 to September 2024
to
Sep 2024 to Sep 2024

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

month by month

Sep 2024881Change+167New domains153Deleted0TLDs3

domains by tld

September 2024
.com8201-mo change+15012-mo change—New domains142Share of TLD<0.1%.net501-mo change+612-mo change—New domains6Share of TLD<0.1%.org111-mo change—12-mo change—New domains5Share of TLD<0.1%