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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 1,824 domains in January 2026. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,824
domains, January 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 2026 to January 2026
to
Jan 2026 to Jan 2026

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

month by month

Jan 20261,824Change-144New domains79Deleted155TLDs3

domains by tld

January 2026
.com1,5911-mo change-10512-mo change+27New domains71Share of TLD<0.1%.net1211-mo change-1512-mo change-6New domains8Share of TLD<0.1%.org1121-mo change-2412-mo change+45New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%