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 2,110 domains in March 2025. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

2,110
domains, March 2025
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 249’s share of the 3 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

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.

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

March 2025 to March 2025
to
Mar 2025 to Mar 2025

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

month by month