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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 1,317 domains in April 2026. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

1,317
domains, April 2026
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

! #1 Host Japan’s 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, ! #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

April 2026 to April 2026
to
Apr 2026 to Apr 2026

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

month by month

Apr 20261,317Change-131New domains9Deleted111TLDs2

domains by tld

April 2026
.com1,2601-mo change-12812-mo change-2,462New domains8Share of TLD<0.1%.net571-mo change-312-mo change-70New domains1Share of TLD<0.1%