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registrar · Gname 281 Inc · IANA 4294

Gname 281, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 281 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 768,022 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,420 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 281 held 1,208 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
1,208
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 281’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 281 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 0 renewed, 1,341 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 281 than to it: 0 in, 733 out.

0 renewed1,341 let go
0 moved in733 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 281’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,208Change-91New domains80Deleted126TLDs3May 20261,299Change-89New domains76Deleted118TLDs3Apr 20261,388Change-92New domains65Deleted112TLDs3Mar 20261,480Change-174New domains62Deleted175TLDs3Feb 20261,654Change-121New domains69Deleted157TLDs3Jan 20261,775Change-117New domains72Deleted139TLDs3Dec 20251,892Change-127New domains78Deleted112TLDs3Nov 20252,019Change-118New domains71Deleted105TLDs3Oct 20252,137Change-66New domains79Deleted110TLDs3Sep 20252,203Change-66New domains77Deleted93TLDs3Aug 20252,269Change-102New domains65Deleted124TLDs3Jul 20252,371Change-13New domains106Deleted46TLDs3Jun 20252,384Change+70New domains171Deleted47TLDs3May 20252,314Change+181New domains243Deleted21TLDs3Apr 20252,133Change+108New domains170Deleted20TLDs3Mar 20252,025Change+107New domains187Deleted69TLDs3Feb 20251,918Change+106New domains132Deleted1TLDs3Jan 20251,812Change+197New domains233Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,615Change+248New domains263Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,367Change+224New domains221Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,143Change+169New domains181Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024974Change+200New domains177Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024774Change+135New domains132Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024639Change+123New domains127Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,1031-mo change-6912-mo change-1,002New domains75Share of TLD<0.1%.net641-mo change-1012-mo change-73New domains5Share of TLD<0.1%.org411-mo change-1212-mo change-101New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%