Is it worth moving my app from the subdomain app.mystartup.com to mystartup.app? Or would separating the app from the marketing website harm SEO? The app itself is completely inaccessible to bots.
The .app domain is now availiable
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#32HN thread on the announcement (May 1): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967865 Has preorder been open since May 1? At least I see domains created as early as May 2: $ whois mail.app Domain Name: mail.app Registry Domain ID: 2CA663491-APP Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.nic.google Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com/ Updated Date: 2018-05-02T16:15:05Z Creation Date: 2018-05-02T16:15:04Z Registry Expiry Date: 20…
Domains here require a trademark. Maybe you could contest it?
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#34This is equivalent to .exe being a TLD, to macOS people.
Good thing the DOS executable extension (.com) isn't a TLD.
Oh wait.
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#35Well, I'm quite happy now: I just bought $FIRST_NAME.app. It was marked as a premium domain, so it was +$50... But the opportunity was too juicy to pass it up. In case anyone is wondering, it appears their premium domains only have a higher price for the initial registration. I just checked how much it would cost to add extra years to my registration, and it's only $14/year. [0] https://support.google.com/domains/ans…
Congrats!
I bought my $firstname.$lastname 2 years ago but forgot to renew and let it lapse.
Someone else picked it up and is neither using it not responding to my emails. I'm still devastasted.
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#36If a domain name holder abuses the .app domain name, it will cause great harm to the company.