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registrar · Name Thread, LLC · IANA 753

Name Thread, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Name Thread was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.48 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 875 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Name Thread held 1,084 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
1,084
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Name Thread’s 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, Name Thread customers renewed 16% of their expiring domains: 190 renewed, 981 let go. More domains moved away from Name Thread than to it: 0 in, 360 out.

190 renewed981 let go
0 moved in360 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 20261,084Change-36New domains41Deleted66TLDs2May 20261,120Change-62New domains51Deleted75TLDs2Apr 20261,182Change-4New domains73Deleted61TLDs2Mar 20261,186Change-27New domains71Deleted88TLDs2Feb 20261,213Change-26New domains67Deleted64TLDs2Jan 20261,239Change-55New domains70Deleted99TLDs2Dec 20251,294Change-39New domains84Deleted102TLDs2Nov 20251,333Change-59New domains50Deleted86TLDs2Oct 20251,392Change-84New domains60Deleted93TLDs2Sep 20251,476Change-78New domains46Deleted81TLDs2Aug 20251,554Change-69New domains56Deleted79TLDs2Jul 20251,623Change-87New domains41Deleted87TLDs2Jun 20251,710Change-19New domains82Deleted44TLDs2May 20251,729Change-16New domains114Deleted63TLDs2Apr 20251,745Change+19New domains101Deleted60TLDs2Mar 20251,726Change-33New domains91Deleted66TLDs2Feb 20251,759Change-4New domains82Deleted62TLDs2Jan 20251,763Change+7New domains110Deleted72TLDs2Dec 20241,756Change+20New domains101Deleted57TLDs2Nov 20241,736Change+24New domains125Deleted63TLDs2Oct 20241,712Change+48New domains144Deleted85TLDs2Sep 20241,664Change+37New domains146Deleted91TLDs2Aug 20241,627Change+31New domains122Deleted66TLDs2Jul 20241,596Change+11New domains145Deleted106TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1,0301-mo change-3512-mo change-575New domains40Share of TLD<0.1%.net541-mo change-112-mo change-51New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%