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registrar · 1st-for-domain-names, LLC · IANA 856

1st-for-domain-names, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

1st-for-domain-names was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 633,304 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 46 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

1st-for-domain-names held 107 domains in November 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

107
domains, November 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

1st-for-domain-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, 1st-for-domain-names customers renewed 86% of their expiring domains: 65 renewed, 11 let go. More domains moved away from 1st-for-domain-names than to it: 0 in, 37 out.

65 renewed11 let go
0 moved in37 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

November 2025 to November 2025
to
Nov 2025 to Nov 2025

1st-for-domain-names’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Nov 2025107Change+1New domains4Deleted1TLDs2

domains by tld

November 2025
.com961-mo change+112-mo change+13New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.net111-mo change012-mo change0New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%