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registrar · Gname 249 Inc · IANA 4262

Gname 249, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 249 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 777,796 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,435 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 249 held 1,223 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
1,223
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 249’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 249 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 1 renewed, 1,457 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 249 than to it: 0 in, 744 out.

1 renewed1,457 let go
0 moved in744 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 249’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,223Change-125New domains79Deleted157TLDs3May 20261,348Change-102New domains108Deleted153TLDs3Apr 20261,450Change-94New domains78Deleted114TLDs3Mar 20261,544Change-146New domains67Deleted169TLDs3Feb 20261,690Change-155New domains67Deleted172TLDs3Jan 20261,845Change-137New domains70Deleted154TLDs3Dec 20251,982Change-130New domains74Deleted125TLDs3Nov 20252,112Change-147New domains78Deleted126TLDs3Oct 20252,259Change-62New domains86Deleted112TLDs3Sep 20252,321Change-43New domains80Deleted93TLDs3Aug 20252,364Change-86New domains62Deleted103TLDs3Jul 20252,450Change-12New domains113Deleted49TLDs3Jun 20252,462Change+22New domains134Deleted37TLDs3May 20252,440Change+169New domains246Deleted26TLDs3Apr 20252,271Change+161New domains217Deleted21TLDs3Mar 20252,110Change+135New domains215Deleted74TLDs3Feb 20251,975Change+125New domains150Deleted1TLDs3Jan 20251,850Change+185New domains241Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,665Change+237New domains248Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,428Change+236New domains234Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,192Change+185New domains195Deleted0TLDs3Sep 20241,007Change+206New domains188Deleted0TLDs3Aug 2024801Change+152New domains155Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024649Change+128New domains121Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1071-mo change-10112-mo change-976New domains73Share of TLD<0.1%.net641-mo change-912-mo change-73New domains4Share of TLD<0.1%.org521-mo change-1512-mo change-190New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%