.app Domain Names
.app domain names, where software lives
The ending that says what the product is before the page loads — and, like .dev, one browsers will only ever load over HTTPS, because the whole zone is HSTS-preloaded. Register from $17.99/yr, with the renewal figure shown before you pay.
.app
Extension
Shown
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Live
Availability results
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DNS management
The Extension
Why .app?
.app went live to the public in 2018 from the 2012 new-gTLD round and became exactly what its string promised: the address for applications — download pages, progressive web apps, product sites and the update endpoints behind them. For a software product, yourname.app often reads better than a hyphenated or prefixed .com, and the whole address works as a sentence: get it at name-dot-app.
Its engineering credential is the same one .dev carries: the entire ending sits on the HSTS preload list, so browsers refuse plain HTTP on any .app address. Users can never reach your download page over an insecure connection, which for software distribution is precisely the guarantee you want. We register .app names in your details with WHOIS privacy included, and the renewal is shown beside the registration before you pay.
Good Fit
.app works best for
- Mobile and desktop app landing pages
- Progressive web apps served at the name itself
- SaaS products whose brand is the product
- Download, update and status endpoints for software
With Every Name
Included with every domain
HTTPS-only by inheritance
HSTS preloading across the whole ending means your users' connection to the app's home is encrypted, always, with no way to misconfigure it away.
The product in the address
An ending that describes software lets the name read as a sentence — memorable in a way generic endings have to work for.
SSL solved before launch
Free certificates issue as the name resolves, meeting the ending's HTTPS requirement without a moment of thought.
Common Questions
Questions about .app
Do I need anything special to host a .app?
Only a valid certificate, since browsers refuse plain HTTP on the ending — and with free SSL issuing automatically on every plan here, that requirement is met before you notice it exists. Beyond HTTPS, a .app behaves like any gTLD: delegate it to any nameservers, edit the zone freely, transfer it by auth code.
Should the app live at the .app or should it redirect to my .com?
Both patterns work. Some brands serve the product at the .app and the company at the .com; others serve everything at one name and redirect the other permanently. Pick one canonical home, 301 the rest, and be consistent — the arrangement to avoid is two half-alive sites splitting your search standing.
Is .app suitable as a company's only domain?
For a business that is its app, yes — plenty operate that way. The considerations are the usual ones for any non-.com ending: hold the classic sibling defensively if the brand justifies it, and remember mail from the name needs SPF, DKIM and DMARC published like any other sending domain.
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