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registrar · Gname 259 Inc · IANA 4272

Gname 259, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 259 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 778,616 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,422 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 259 held 1,251 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
1,251
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 259’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 259 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,298 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 259 than to it: 0 in, 705 out.

0 renewed1,298 let go
0 moved in705 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 259’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,251Change-116New domains79Deleted154TLDs3May 20261,367Change-86New domains76Deleted122TLDs3Apr 20261,453Change-77New domains75Deleted103TLDs3Mar 20261,530Change-116New domains88Deleted172TLDs3Feb 20261,646Change-119New domains74Deleted151TLDs3Jan 20261,765Change-119New domains71Deleted128TLDs3Dec 20251,884Change-105New domains68Deleted88TLDs3Nov 20251,989Change-128New domains67Deleted111TLDs3Oct 20252,117Change-47New domains96Deleted101TLDs3Sep 20252,164Change-57New domains87Deleted116TLDs3Aug 20252,221Change-51New domains73Deleted83TLDs3Jul 20252,272Change-7New domains111Deleted55TLDs3Jun 20252,279Change+20New domains132Deleted35TLDs3May 20252,259Change+177New domains242Deleted34TLDs3Apr 20252,082Change+112New domains207Deleted34TLDs3Mar 20251,970Change+106New domains171Deleted66TLDs3Feb 20251,864Change+107New domains125Deleted0TLDs3Jan 20251,757Change+202New domains238Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,555Change+239New domains262Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,316Change+203New domains187Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,113Change+147New domains153Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024966Change+183New domains172Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024783Change+128New domains131Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024655Change+148New domains166Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1311-mo change-9412-mo change-889New domains73Share of TLD<0.1%.net791-mo change-412-mo change-67New domains6Share of TLD<0.1%.org411-mo change-1812-mo change-72New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%