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registrar · Hostlane, LLC · IANA 847

Hostlane, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Hostlane was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 629,523 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 44 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Hostlane held 115 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
115
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Hostlane’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, Hostlane customers renewed 85% of their expiring domains: 89 renewed, 16 let go. More domains moved away from Hostlane than to it: 0 in, 43 out.

89 renewed16 let go
0 moved in43 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

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

month by month

Jun 2026115Change+8New domains10Deleted1TLDs2May 2026107Change-1New domains1Deleted1TLDs2Apr 2026108Change-2New domains3Deleted0TLDs2Mar 2026110Change+2New domains4Deleted1TLDs2Feb 2026108Change+1New domains4Deleted0TLDs2Jan 2026107Change-2New domains3Deleted1TLDs2Dec 2025109Change-11New domains8Deleted2TLDs2Nov 2025120Change+1New domains6Deleted2TLDs2Oct 2025119Change-2New domains5Deleted1TLDs2Sep 2025121Change-2New domains1Deleted2TLDs2Aug 2025123Change-1New domains2Deleted3TLDs2Jul 2025124Change+2New domains5Deleted2TLDs2Jun 2025122Change-2New domains1Deleted0TLDs2May 2025124Change-1New domains3Deleted1TLDs2Apr 2025125Change0New domains3Deleted0TLDs2Mar 2025125Change+2New domains6Deleted0TLDs2Feb 2025123Change+3New domains4Deleted0TLDs2Jan 2025120Change+1New domains2Deleted0TLDs2Dec 2024119Change+1New domains6Deleted0TLDs2Nov 2024118Change-2New domains2Deleted2TLDs2Oct 2024120Change-2New domains4Deleted2TLDs2Sep 2024122Change0New domains4Deleted1TLDs2Aug 2024122Change-3New domains1Deleted2TLDs2Jul 2024125Change+1New domains2Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026
.com1071-mo change+812-mo change-7New domains10Share of TLD<0.1%.net81-mo change012-mo change0New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%