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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 1,716 domains in April 2025. It holds domains in 3 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,716
domains, April 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

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

June 2026
  1. Verisign
  2. .com<0.1%
  3. .net<0.1%
  1. Public Interest Registry
  2. .org<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, 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

April 2025 to April 2025
to
Apr 2025 to Apr 2025

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

month by month

Apr 20251,716Change-19New domains112Deleted84TLDs3

domains by tld

April 2025
.com1,5971-mo change-1712-mo change-118New domains107Share of TLD<0.1%.net1171-mo change-212-mo change-13New domains5Share of TLD<0.1%.org21-mo change012-mo change-1New domains0Share of TLD<0.1%