.app .APP Registration

[drewwash]

Now that .APP is rolling out I thought I'd share a little of our position in .APP domains. I'd love to know what others are doing.

We budgeted just shy of $100k for .APP domain registrations. Several we've already acquired and several we've missed. I'll update our pickups as I can without giving away our position. So far I will share that we picked up:

• Wedding.app

Trademark Claim
I do have a domain that we registered that has to pass their trademark claim process... it is very generic, not sure who decided to try to call it a trademark, we shall see.

Our Why
To sum it up, Google is our why. I became a domainer back in 2000, when the domain really mattered in SEO. My hunch is that Google won't be able to resist giving some type of preference to quality .APP domain.

Even a small advantage in the SERs or even the Play App Search results, make generic .APP domains valuable.

 

[3sixty]

Any more luck with registrations/ allotments?. My 3 other names are still stuck in processing

Anyone with luck, pls share the name domain name alloted along with registrar. Will help in analysing who is doing a more effecient job.

Check the whois at dynadot. Its updated and will show if you got the name you wanted.

 

[LA Digital]

Agreed, but the middle line of both cases was the best road to take.

Get those $130USD EAD golden nuggets, $15-$40 renewal names on the EAD 5-7 days period.

If you have a smaller budget then one or two of those guaranteed is better than 40 unguaranteed.

As always, certainty over doubt.

This is the road I took. I regged a few in the EAP that I really wanted or plan to develop and the rest of my list I preregged.

The problem with "quality" is the renewal. I wouldve paid $3kish for a few names but they were $1000-2000 PER YEAR with renewal. I had a few others like concerts.app that I could've got day 5 for $130 but thats another $130 per year. With that math I took socialmedia.app and paid a few hundred more on the front end but with $20 renewal it will be cheaper in 3 years.

 

[Vimal Kumar]

My 2nd pre-registered domain (this time with yay just 3 hours back) has just been allotted to me. Cool .

The name is mysocial/app

 

[Michael M]

My GD .app orders are stuck like you other guys - so I had to go to uniregistry and the same ones were regged immediately. There are definitely some good ones left at reg-fee, and I found one I didnt think would be available or would have a high pricetag for ~$50 fee.

 

[LA Digital]

Check the whois at dynadot. Its updated and will show if you got the name you wanted.

dynadot still showing some as taken by a registrar but not resolved the owner yet. might mean an auction.

 

[Vimal Kumar]

My GD .app orders are stuck like you other guys - so I had to go to uniregistry and the same ones were regged immediately. There are definitely some good ones left at reg-fee, and I found one I didnt think would be available or would have a high pricetag for ~$50 fee.

would you like to share the names? will help us understand if it was in competition

 

[3sixty]

dynadot still showing some as taken by a registrar but not resolved the owner yet. might mean an auction.

From what I understand, there can only be 1 buyer per release category at Yay. So if you were the person who pre-ordered at Yay, then its yours.

 

[LamsuanlunT]

Finally reg 2 from uniregistry! Bye bye GD

 

[CJ6]

Finally reg 2 from uniregistry! Bye bye GD

Anything good?

 

[LA Digital]

would you like to share the names? will help us understand if it was in competition

here were a couple of mine - gigs.app, seat.app, hugs.app, tux.app, rims.app, yen.app, icu.app, arcadegames.app, drivethru.app. Also had some travel related stuff and more stuff that is in the live event space like setlist.app that isn't worth much but I would probably develop someday. I did just grab bankaccount.app & trafficschool.app off uniregistry as google never resolved them and nobody else took them. Those are among the worst names on my list but since I didn't get many of them for $20 it impulse bought them.

 

[LamsuanlunT]

Anything good?

Don't know if you think it's good. I got frustrated with GD not doing their job so i regged digicam and freeblog. Instant!

 

[CJ6]

Anyone reg toptoptoptoptop.....app yet? I'm too lazy to check.

 

[Michael M]

There are already a few .app domain listed on undeveloped, including crypto.app https://undeveloped.com/search?tld=.app&terms= &order=relevance&utf8=✓ . None of the domains have a buy now price. I am very curious to see for how much the first .app domains will sell.

I think it will be interesting to watch this list build... Good link!

 

[LamsuanlunT]

Anyone reg toptoptoptoptop.....app yet? I'm too lazy to check.

It's available!

 

[campout]

This guy works on the .app team for Google:

 

[Joakim]

Have all my preregs with Name.com, still pending. Whois says Name.com got around 50% of them, the rest is gone - the best ones ofcourse.

Grabbed cyberspace just now though, decent enough!

 

[JamieHines]

I had pre-reg DISPENSARIES.APP at Godaddy. They're screwing around so I checked at Uniregistry and it was still available. So I put it in checkout cart, ate some ramen noodles, ironed my clothes, watched some rerun of Anthony Bourdain and took a leak. 30 minutes later when I went to complete checkout, the domain was gone. Someone bought it right from under me. I know it was one of you thieves. I know it! How could you?!

 

[Vimal Kumar]

I think it will be interesting to watch this list build... Good link!

As a reseller, I find it scary. Higher propotion of .apps flooding the reseller market shows sign of speculation.

 

[campout]

@JamieHines You might still get it at GoDaddy. The WhoIs shows:

"Registrant Organization: Pending Update"

 

[LamsuanlunT]

I had pre-reg DISPENSARIES.APP at Godaddy. They're screwing around so I checked at Uniregistry and it was still available. So I put it in checkout cart, ate some ramen noodles, ironed my clothes, watched some rerun of Anthony Bourdain and took a leak. 30 minutes later when I went to complete checkout, the domain was gone. Someone bought it right from under me. I know it was one of you thieves. I know it! How could you?!

haha.. not me