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registrar · Gname 298 Inc · IANA 4311

Gname 298, a Gname drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Gname 298 was one of Gname’s 299 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 769,730 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,440 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Gname 298 held 1,227 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
1,227
domains, June 2026
9th
Gname family, 2012-round TLDs

Gname 298’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 298 customers renewed 0% of their expiring domains: 1 renewed, 1,274 let go. More domains moved away from Gname 298 than to it: 0 in, 680 out.

1 renewed1,274 let go
0 moved in680 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2024 to June 2026
Jan 2024 to Jun 2026

Gname 298’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,227Change-120New domains63Deleted132TLDs3May 20261,347Change-105New domains72Deleted135TLDs3Apr 20261,452Change-87New domains71Deleted110TLDs3Mar 20261,539Change-132New domains63Deleted145TLDs3Feb 20261,671Change-96New domains67Deleted126TLDs3Jan 20261,767Change-113New domains82Deleted133TLDs3Dec 20251,880Change-104New domains80Deleted115TLDs3Nov 20251,984Change-94New domains82Deleted105TLDs3Oct 20252,078Change-41New domains94Deleted108TLDs3Sep 20252,119Change-31New domains94Deleted102TLDs3Aug 20252,150Change-61New domains81Deleted107TLDs3Jul 20252,211Change-24New domains100Deleted50TLDs3Jun 20252,235Change+48New domains148Deleted30TLDs3May 20252,187Change+174New domains244Deleted25TLDs3Apr 20252,013Change+135New domains179Deleted17TLDs3Mar 20251,878Change+107New domains201Deleted62TLDs3Feb 20251,771Change+94New domains122Deleted2TLDs3Jan 20251,677Change+159New domains206Deleted0TLDs3Dec 20241,518Change+215New domains227Deleted0TLDs3Nov 20241,303Change+192New domains193Deleted0TLDs3Oct 20241,111Change+147New domains174Deleted0TLDs3Sep 2024964Change+188New domains161Deleted0TLDs2Aug 2024776Change+130New domains135Deleted0TLDs2Jul 2024646Change+131New domains135Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,0931-mo change-10512-mo change-896New domains59Share of TLD<0.1%.net851-mo change012-mo change-37New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.org491-mo change-1512-mo change-75New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%