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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 1,664 domains in September 2024. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,664
domains, September 2024
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

September 2024 to September 2024
to
Sep 2024 to Sep 2024

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

month by month

Sep 20241,664Change+37New domains146Deleted91TLDs2

domains by tld

September 2024
.com1,5561-mo change+3612-mo change-48New domains136Share of TLD<0.1%.net1081-mo change+112-mo change+21New domains10Share of TLD<0.1%