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registrar · Gname 253 Inc · IANA 4266

Gname 253, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 253 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 778,411 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,433 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 253 held 1,288 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
1,288
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 253’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 253 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,352 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 253 than to it: 0 in, 690 out.

0 renewed1,352 let go
0 moved in690 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 253’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,288Change-163New domains63Deleted180TLDs3May 20261,451Change-68New domains112Deleted137TLDs3Apr 20261,519Change-58New domains96Deleted101TLDs3Mar 20261,577Change-124New domains89Deleted175TLDs3Feb 20261,701Change-117New domains69Deleted145TLDs3Jan 20261,818Change-94New domains88Deleted128TLDs3Dec 20251,912Change-95New domains82Deleted101TLDs3Nov 20252,007Change-106New domains82Deleted112TLDs3Oct 20252,113Change-50New domains90Deleted99TLDs3Sep 20252,163Change-65New domains80Deleted119TLDs3Aug 20252,228Change-58New domains75Deleted89TLDs3Jul 20252,286Change+6New domains112Deleted49TLDs3Jun 20252,280Change+28New domains149Deleted40TLDs3May 20252,252Change+138New domains202Deleted33TLDs3Apr 20252,114Change+154New domains233Deleted26TLDs3Mar 20251,960Change+107New domains190Deleted71TLDs3Feb 20251,853Change+82New domains108Deleted3TLDs3Jan 20251,771Change+196New domains238Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,575Change+247New domains249Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,328Change+195New domains200Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,133Change+159New domains164Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024974Change+185New domains177Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024789Change+123New domains126Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024666Change+140New domains138Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1691-mo change-13312-mo change-834New domains57Share of TLD<0.1%.net791-mo change-1112-mo change-68New domains5Share of TLD<0.1%.org401-mo change-1912-mo change-90New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%