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registrar · Department-of-domains, LLC · IANA 876

Department-of-domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Department-of-domains was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 628,964 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 33 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Department-of-domains held 92 domains in January 2026. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

92
domains, January 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Department-of-domains’ 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, Department-of-domains customers renewed 83% of their expiring domains: 70 renewed, 14 let go. More domains moved away from Department-of-domains than to it: 0 in, 34 out.

70 renewed14 let go
0 moved in34 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

January 2026 to January 2026
to
Jan 2026 to Jan 2026

Department-of-domains’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jan 202692Change-3New domains3Deleted0TLDs2

domains by tld

January 2026
.com891-mo change-312-mo change-10New domains3Share of TLD<0.1%.net31-mo change012-mo change-2New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%