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registrar · Nerd Names, LLC · IANA 750

Nerd Names, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Nerd Names was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.45 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 926 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Nerd Names held 1,068 domains in June 2026, under 0.1% of all domains in generic TLDs. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

<0.1%
market share, June 2026
1,068
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Nerd Names’ share of the 2 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026
  1. Verisign
  2. .com<0.1%
  3. .net<0.1%

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, Nerd Names customers renewed 15% of their expiring domains: 183 renewed, 1,031 let go. More domains moved away from Nerd Names than to it: 0 in, 365 out.

183 renewed1,031 let go
0 moved in365 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

Nerd Names’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,068Change-44New domains49Deleted74TLDs2May 20261,112Change-62New domains44Deleted86TLDs2Apr 20261,174Change-35New domains66Deleted84TLDs2Mar 20261,209Change-24New domains62Deleted80TLDs2Feb 20261,233Change-39New domains60Deleted68TLDs2Jan 20261,272Change-65New domains70Deleted101TLDs2Dec 20251,337Change-1New domains84Deleted69TLDs2Nov 20251,338Change-66New domains50Deleted95TLDs2Oct 20251,404Change-108New domains57Deleted95TLDs2Sep 20251,512Change-66New domains52Deleted79TLDs2Aug 20251,578Change-69New domains58Deleted86TLDs2Jul 20251,647Change-98New domains67Deleted114TLDs2Jun 20251,745Change-20New domains71Deleted46TLDs2May 20251,765Change-36New domains104Deleted73TLDs2Apr 20251,801Change+8New domains101Deleted75TLDs2Mar 20251,793Change-41New domains95Deleted85TLDs2Feb 20251,834Change-10New domains105Deleted92TLDs2Jan 20251,844Change-25New domains114Deleted106TLDs2Dec 20241,869Change+19New domains106Deleted72TLDs2Nov 20241,850Change+28New domains126Deleted59TLDs2Oct 20241,822Change+25New domains119Deleted76TLDs2Sep 20241,797Change+5New domains143Deleted104TLDs2Aug 20241,792Change+19New domains135Deleted96TLDs2Jul 20241,773Change-24New domains131Deleted115TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,0231-mo change-4012-mo change-632New domains49Share of TLD<0.1%.net451-mo change-412-mo change-45New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%