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

120
domains, January 2025
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

January 2025 to January 2025
to
Jan 2025 to Jan 2025

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

month by month

Jan 2025120Change+1New domains2Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

January 2025
.com1121-mo change+112-mo change-16New domains2Share of TLD<0.1%.net81-mo change012-mo change-2New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%