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registrar · Gname 255 Inc · IANA 4268

Gname 255, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 255 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 780,854 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,435 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 255 held 1,276 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
1,276
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 255’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 255 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,341 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 255 than to it: 0 in, 731 out.

0 renewed1,341 let go
0 moved in731 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 255’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,276Change-120New domains96Deleted171TLDs3May 20261,396Change-107New domains88Deleted161TLDs3Apr 20261,503Change-76New domains88Deleted106TLDs3Mar 20261,579Change-112New domains84Deleted161TLDs3Feb 20261,691Change-142New domains75Deleted174TLDs3Jan 20261,833Change-115New domains77Deleted125TLDs3Dec 20251,948Change-99New domains83Deleted101TLDs3Nov 20252,047Change-91New domains88Deleted109TLDs3Oct 20252,138Change-71New domains86Deleted102TLDs3Sep 20252,209Change-46New domains74Deleted85TLDs3Aug 20252,255Change-73New domains62Deleted81TLDs3Jul 20252,328Change-19New domains100Deleted46TLDs3Jun 20252,347Change+33New domains135Deleted38TLDs3May 20252,314Change+186New domains237Deleted27TLDs3Apr 20252,128Change+163New domains216Deleted12TLDs3Mar 20251,965Change+130New domains208Deleted67TLDs3Feb 20251,835Change+106New domains140Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,729Change+190New domains222Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,539Change+251New domains279Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,288Change+206New domains199Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,082Change+169New domains170Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024913Change+194New domains184Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024719Change+139New domains139Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024580Change+109New domains109Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1631-mo change-9412-mo change-909New domains95Share of TLD<0.1%.net741-mo change-812-mo change-78New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%.org391-mo change-1812-mo change-84New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%