registrar · Afterdark Domains, LLC · IANA 922

Afterdark Domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Afterdark Domains was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 4.44 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 913 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Afterdark Domains held 1,064 domains in June 2026, under 0.1% of all domains in generic TLDs. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

<0.1%
market share, June 2026
1,064
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Afterdark Domains’ share of the 3 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

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, Afterdark Domains customers renewed 14% of their expiring domains: 154 renewed, 966 let go. More domains moved away from Afterdark Domains than to it: 0 in, 324 out.

154 renewed966 let go
0 moved in324 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

Afterdark Domains’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,064Change-44New domains50Deleted75TLDs3May 20261,108Change-38New domains57Deleted80TLDs3Apr 20261,146Change-41New domains51Deleted83TLDs3Mar 20261,187Change-54New domains70Deleted97TLDs3Feb 20261,241Change-12New domains62Deleted57TLDs3Jan 20261,253Change-29New domains70Deleted72TLDs3Dec 20251,282Change+8New domains94Deleted70TLDs3Nov 20251,274Change-53New domains49Deleted71TLDs3Oct 20251,327Change-70New domains62Deleted92TLDs3Sep 20251,397Change-79New domains47Deleted92TLDs3Aug 20251,476Change-57New domains55Deleted81TLDs3Jul 20251,533Change-94New domains51Deleted96TLDs3Jun 20251,627Change-55New domains59Deleted59TLDs3May 20251,682Change-34New domains121Deleted90TLDs3Apr 20251,716Change-19New domains112Deleted84TLDs3Mar 20251,735Change-42New domains82Deleted76TLDs3Feb 20251,777Change-4New domains112Deleted85TLDs3Jan 20251,781Change-19New domains111Deleted95TLDs3Dec 20241,800Change+20New domains105Deleted65TLDs3Nov 20241,780Change+10New domains95Deleted60TLDs3Oct 20241,770Change-21New domains112Deleted109TLDs3Sep 20241,791Change+11New domains116Deleted89TLDs3Aug 20241,780Change-19New domains111Deleted106TLDs3Jul 20241,799Change-47New domains126Deleted135TLDs3