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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 1,765 domains in May 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,765
domains, May 2025
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

May 2025 to May 2025
to
May 2025 to May 2025

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

month by month

May 20251,765Change-36New domains104Deleted73TLDs2

domains by tld

May 2025
.com1,6711-mo change-2612-mo change-28New domains102Share of TLD<0.1%.net941-mo change-1012-mo change-32New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%