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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 1,131 domains in October 2024. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,131
domains, October 2024
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

October 2024 to October 2024
to
Oct 2024 to Oct 2024

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

month by month

Oct 20241,131Change+139New domains160Deleted0TLDs3

domains by tld

October 2024
.com1,0451-mo change+11712-mo change—New domains146Share of TLD<0.1%.net741-mo change+1012-mo change—New domains9Share of TLD<0.1%.org121-mo change—12-mo change—New domains5Share of TLD<0.1%