registrar · SNAPNAMES 89, LLC · IANA 704

SNAPNAMES 89, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

SNAPNAMES 89 was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 788 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

SNAPNAMES 89 held 396 domains in August 2024. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

396
domains, August 2024
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

SNAPNAMES 89’s share of the 3 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

The tick marks its 0.0% across its 0 largest TLDs. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

Where Newfold Digital ranks in the new TLDs

By June 2026, Newfold Digital’s registrars held 1,309,494 domains in the new TLDs from ICANN’s 2012 round, 2.2% of them, eleventh 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. Newfold Digital2.2%

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, SNAPNAMES 89 customers renewed 32% of their expiring domains: 141 renewed, 297 let go. More domains moved away from SNAPNAMES 89 than to it: 0 in, 204 out.

141 renewed297 let go
0 moved in204 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

August 2024 to August 2024
to
Aug 2024 to Aug 2024

SNAPNAMES 89’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month