advice Anyone into .App these days?

[stargoldsilver]

Im thinking of hand regging a few .apps after seeing what shop.app pulled in .

Your thoughts on that?

 

[Meadows]

I was to late for regging at that time

 

[umjd1998]

spank.app

 

[Super-Annuation]

I’ve had a few offers for Neobank.app

Still holding out to see what comes of the emerging competition for big banks.

 

[jim h]

Map.app
DataBank.app
GameShop.app
HotLive.app

.App is definitely a potential suffix.

 

[Masay]

plus if a .app domain i hold doesnt sell within a year i just dump it.

please correct me, but I think .app domains that get expired some of them became premium renewal. just like .co

 

[Ariff BD]

It is encouraging to see now a number of 5-figure .app sales, as well as the 6-figure shop sale, and as I read the sales data almost all were domainer sales.

Is it a good investment? As with anything, the answer is, it depends. You need to look at the original cost and renewal cost, as well as try to estimate your probability of sale.
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As pointed out above, on the basis of the 61 .app sales that are in NameBio, the average price is substantially higher than in .com, mainly indicate that the .apps that have sold are the high value ones that sold long ago in legacy extensions.

In terms of annual holding cost, if you can find a non-premium name that you think has a bright future, the wholesale renewal is $12, with some registrars offering retail not too much above that, versus $7.85 wholesale for .com currently.

What about probability of sale? Over the past year there are 46 NameBio listed .app sales (average price on those $9941) and using Dofo.com currently there are about 39,700 .app domain names listed for sale, suggesting an annual sell through rate of about 0.12%.

By comparison, when I looked at domain name sell-through rates, for .com the comparable apparent sell-through rate (just using NameBio listed sales) is 0.60%.

Of course the .app stats are small dataset, and these are NameBio only, missing sales at many venues, as well as including a mix of wholesale acquisitions and retail sales.

So it suggests that your odds of selling an .app in any one year compared to a .com is about 1/5 as likely, but the average price is likely to be higher by about the same factor, so this analysis does not allow you to conclude anything, perhaps!

I agree that decentralized app developments may push further use for extension. People tend to have different views on Google, but in general I like what they have done with recent TLDs including .app.

Personally, if I can find a name I think has reasonable probability of sale, and standard renewal, I would not hesitate to invest in .app (although I have none right now myself).

Bob

PS I recently read @jmcc book Domnomics (see my NamePros review/summary), and in chapter 8 he suggests 7 factors to consider when investing in a TLD. On most of themm I feel relatively positive re .app. I find the average person on street has heard of it. There are some big name users. There is at least some record of aftermarket sales, including high value ones. I at least like the owners of the registry. He also mentions in book it takes time for an accurate picture to develop about a TLD, probably longer than .app has been around. For this reason, there is I think a bit higher risk in any newish TLD, because if you wait until the pattern is clear, investment opportunities at reasonable prices will be largely gone.

thanks for the details
I registered my first app domain- freemium.app
Figuring out where to outbound

 

[MrBond]

thanks for the details
I registered my first app domain- freemium.app
Figuring out where to outbound

Is there a list somewhere of the 5 figure .app sales by chance?

 

[MapleDots]

I have photograpp.com so I added photogr.app as a hack.

Basically the word Photograph with the las "h" changed to a "p"

 

[BRDavid08]

aireality.app.