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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 2,016 domains in November 2025. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

2,016
domains, November 2025
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

November 2025 to November 2025
to
Nov 2025 to Nov 2025

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

month by month

Nov 20252,016Change-69New domains86Deleted102TLDs3

domains by tld

November 2025
.com1,7621-mo change-6512-mo change+514New domains80Share of TLD<0.1%.org1311-mo change-212-mo change+105New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%.net1231-mo change-212-mo change+47New domains6Share of TLD<0.1%