registrar · ! #1 Host Japan, LLC · IANA 980

! #1 Host Japan, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

! #1 Host Japan was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 18.3 million attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 1,200 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

! #1 Host Japan held 1,093 domains in June 2026, under 0.1% of all domains in generic TLDs. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

<0.1%
market share, June 2026
1,093
domains, June 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

! #1 Host Japan’s share of the 2 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, ! #1 Host Japan customers renewed 13% of their expiring domains: 279 renewed, 1,869 let go. More domains moved away from ! #1 Host Japan than to it: 0 in, 606 out.

279 renewed1,869 let go
0 moved in606 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

July 2016 to June 2026
Jul 2016 to Jun 2026

! #1 Host Japan’s domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

Jun 20261,093Change-105New domains16Deleted88TLDs2May 20261,198Change-119New domains10Deleted120TLDs2Apr 20261,317Change-131New domains9Deleted111TLDs2Mar 20261,448Change-105New domains13Deleted84TLDs2Feb 20261,553Change-102New domains18Deleted87TLDs2Jan 20261,655Change-145New domains52Deleted173TLDs2Dec 20251,800Change-165New domains58Deleted184TLDs2Nov 20251,965Change-147New domains40Deleted133TLDs2Oct 20252,112Change-232New domains55Deleted177TLDs2Sep 20252,344Change-151New domains95Deleted149TLDs2Aug 20252,495Change-184New domains98Deleted208TLDs2Jul 20252,679Change-315New domains103Deleted355TLDs2Jun 20252,994Change-472New domains95Deleted447TLDs2May 20253,466Change-383New domains157Deleted389TLDs2Apr 20253,849Change-362New domains134Deleted260TLDs2Mar 20254,211Change-519New domains137Deleted431TLDs2Feb 20254,730Change-382New domains117Deleted317TLDs2Jan 20255,112Change-93New domains146Deleted111TLDs2Dec 20245,205Change-152New domains107Deleted133TLDs2Nov 20245,357Change-215New domains228Deleted320TLDs2Oct 20245,572Change-250New domains234Deleted414TLDs2Sep 20245,822Change-307New domains263Deleted561TLDs2Aug 20246,129Change-561New domains218Deleted651TLDs2Jul 20246,690Change-1,358New domains205Deleted1,417TLDs2

domains by tld

June 2026