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registrar · Gname 256 Inc · IANA 4269

Gname 256, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 256 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 779,814 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,438 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 256 held 1,391 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
1,391
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 256’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 256 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,346 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 256 than to it: 0 in, 700 out.

0 renewed1,346 let go
0 moved in700 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 256’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,391Change-109New domains82Deleted156TLDs3May 20261,500Change-67New domains114Deleted135TLDs3Apr 20261,567Change-54New domains115Deleted114TLDs3Mar 20261,621Change-95New domains102Deleted160TLDs3Feb 20261,716Change-113New domains89Deleted154TLDs3Jan 20261,829Change-93New domains98Deleted143TLDs3Dec 20251,922Change-94New domains82Deleted92TLDs3Nov 20252,016Change-69New domains86Deleted102TLDs3Oct 20252,085Change-83New domains86Deleted119TLDs3Sep 20252,168Change-59New domains74Deleted106TLDs3Aug 20252,227Change-80New domains58Deleted98TLDs3Jul 20252,307Change-42New domains100Deleted64TLDs3Jun 20252,349Change+31New domains136Deleted41TLDs3May 20252,318Change+198New domains254Deleted21TLDs3Apr 20252,120Change+143New domains204Deleted21TLDs3Mar 20251,977Change+91New domains198Deleted77TLDs3Feb 20251,886Change+112New domains135Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,774Change+195New domains224Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,579Change+229New domains247Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,350Change+207New domains200Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,143Change+158New domains171Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024985Change+190New domains170Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024795Change+136New domains139Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024659Change+132New domains135Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,2551-mo change-8812-mo change-832New domains79Share of TLD<0.1%.net831-mo change-812-mo change-62New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%.org531-mo change-1312-mo change-64New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%