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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 1,272 domains in January 2026. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,272
domains, January 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

January 2026 to January 2026
to
Jan 2026 to Jan 2026

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

month by month

Jan 20261,272Change-65New domains70Deleted101TLDs2

domains by tld

January 2026
.com1,2081-mo change-6012-mo change-522New domains68Share of TLD<0.1%.net641-mo change-512-mo change-50New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%