question .app domain future

[Amit V]

What are your opinions on the domain extension .app . Is it the next .com ?

 

[Jim H]

When your capital is large so can be your losses, no guarantees in this business, the registries have learned how to offset the risk to the domainer with premium renewal.

Now say a buyer buys a domain if yours for $10-15k, if so you allow it, and want to transfer it to another register, say map.app, they would have to pay another $2k, and it could essentially kill their deal as most buyers are clueless to premium gtld pricing structures as they default to .com fixed pricing.

Your essentially gambling arbitrage that you make a sale before you renewal bleed you out.

Well, so before buying these kind of domain names, we need to collect the demand to judge potential buyers. Fortunately, some of them have contacted me. This is basically in line with my expectations.
Anyway, nothing can be absolutely certain. At least the arrival of the epidemic has changed some things.
But the demands for domains is still huge. So...