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registrar · Gname 257 Inc · IANA 4270

Gname 257, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 257 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 778,901 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,451 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 257 held 1,335 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
1,335
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 257’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 257 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,352 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 257 than to it: 0 in, 728 out.

0 renewed1,352 let go
0 moved in728 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 257’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,335Change-113New domains91Deleted163TLDs3May 20261,448Change-103New domains102Deleted164TLDs3Apr 20261,551Change-63New domains99Deleted112TLDs3Mar 20261,614Change-106New domains94Deleted156TLDs3Feb 20261,720Change-104New domains80Deleted135TLDs3Jan 20261,824Change-144New domains79Deleted155TLDs3Dec 20251,968Change-107New domains73Deleted97TLDs3Nov 20252,075Change-89New domains74Deleted93TLDs3Oct 20252,164Change-47New domains96Deleted106TLDs3Sep 20252,211Change-57New domains82Deleted118TLDs3Aug 20252,268Change-84New domains62Deleted90TLDs3Jul 20252,352Change-22New domains94Deleted45TLDs3Jun 20252,374Change+25New domains137Deleted43TLDs3May 20252,349Change+207New domains264Deleted20TLDs3Apr 20252,142Change+131New domains203Deleted24TLDs3Mar 20252,011Change+137New domains223Deleted74TLDs3Feb 20251,874Change+116New domains142Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,758Change+196New domains225Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,562Change+211New domains229Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,351Change+218New domains222Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,133Change+161New domains162Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024972Change+174New domains159Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024798Change+141New domains154Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024657Change+158New domains150Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,2051-mo change-8812-mo change-861New domains88Share of TLD<0.1%.net881-mo change-712-mo change-82New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%.org421-mo change-1812-mo change-96New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%