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registrar · Gname 252 Inc · IANA 4265

Gname 252, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 252 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 777,753 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,397 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 252 held 1,249 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
1,249
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 252’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 252 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 1 renewed, 1,339 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 252 than to it: 0 in, 699 out.

1 renewed1,339 let go
0 moved in699 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 252’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,249Change-102New domains81Deleted141TLDs3May 20261,351Change-89New domains93Deleted142TLDs3Apr 20261,440Change-58New domains98Deleted114TLDs3Mar 20261,498Change-130New domains76Deleted160TLDs3Feb 20261,628Change-174New domains59Deleted169TLDs3Jan 20261,802Change-97New domains101Deleted143TLDs3Dec 20251,899Change-86New domains86Deleted95TLDs3Nov 20251,985Change-109New domains67Deleted101TLDs3Oct 20252,094Change-60New domains87Deleted112TLDs3Sep 20252,154Change-59New domains84Deleted115TLDs3Aug 20252,213Change-73New domains67Deleted90TLDs3Jul 20252,286Change-7New domains82Deleted46TLDs3Jun 20252,293Change+30New domains136Deleted34TLDs3May 20252,263Change+149New domains219Deleted30TLDs3Apr 20252,114Change+109New domains188Deleted26TLDs3Mar 20252,005Change+115New domains204Deleted82TLDs3Feb 20251,890Change+113New domains136Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,777Change+200New domains231Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,577Change+230New domains258Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,347Change+216New domains209Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,131Change+139New domains160Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024992Change+206New domains181Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024786Change+117New domains122Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024669Change+139New domains153Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1341-mo change-8312-mo change-896New domains76Share of TLD<0.1%.net671-mo change-812-mo change-69New domains4Share of TLD<0.1%.org481-mo change-1112-mo change-79New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%