What do you think about .app domain names?
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What do you think about .app top level domain names? Yay or nay?
Are they suitable for a SaaS application? Or is it more intended for mobile apps?
And is anybody actually using the them? I know that are many registered but I can't seem to remember actually seeing any examples of *.app domain names.
.app is also on the HSTS preload list, which means that it requires https. So I assume that means that if someone enters example.app in their browser it will automatically look at port 443.
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here's a question - does it even matter?
There was a time when .net was only for ISPs (or at least that's what I recall reading), but is that case now? heck no.
TLDs rarely if ever stay within their "specified" purposes.
Heck, just look at this site - mangolassi.it - .it - as in an Italian website, but we definitely aren't that.
Long run - normal people have no idea what the purpose of a TLD is other than it's part of the name of the website they are visiting.
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If it is under the hood, why bother. If it isn't under the hood, I think customers get confused.
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@dashrender said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
here's a question - does it even matter?
There was a time when .net was only for ISPs (or at least that's what I recall reading), but is that case now? heck no.
TLDs rarely if ever stay within their "specified" purposes.
Heck, just look at this site - mangolassi.it - .it - as in an Italian website, but we definitely aren't that.
Long run - normal people have no idea what the purpose of a TLD is other than it's part of the name of the website they are visiting.
Among IT pros there might not be much difference. But I think it depends on what it was. If it was mangolassi.ru would you be as likely to visit?
But I don't know about business users. If they think it's odd and suspicious it might have some negative effect.
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@scottalanmiller said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
If it is under the hood, why bother. If it isn't under the hood, I think customers get confused.
So you mean if it's customer facing it's better to stick to .com and there will be no confusion?
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@pete-s said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@dashrender said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
here's a question - does it even matter?
There was a time when .net was only for ISPs (or at least that's what I recall reading), but is that case now? heck no.
TLDs rarely if ever stay within their "specified" purposes.
Heck, just look at this site - mangolassi.it - .it - as in an Italian website, but we definitely aren't that.
Long run - normal people have no idea what the purpose of a TLD is other than it's part of the name of the website they are visiting.
Among IT pros there might not be much difference. But I think it depends on what it was. If it was mangolassi.ru would you be as likely to visit?
But I don't know about business users. If they think it's odd and suspicious it might have some negative effect.
I might be willing to visit the site with a .ru TLD. The reality is that any TLD can be bad, any can be good.
really the only one I'm really worried about is .cn
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@pete-s said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@scottalanmiller said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
If it is under the hood, why bother. If it isn't under the hood, I think customers get confused.
So you mean if it's customer facing it's better to stick to .com and there will be no confusion?
Right, asking customers to type in .app typically comes with problems.
So that's myprog.app.com then?
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@scottalanmiller said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@pete-s said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@scottalanmiller said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
If it is under the hood, why bother. If it isn't under the hood, I think customers get confused.
So you mean if it's customer facing it's better to stick to .com and there will be no confusion?
Right, asking customers to type in .app typically comes with problems.
So that's myprog.app.com then?
We've been doing a fair amount of DOMAIN.Social lately (Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04) with folks not having much of an issue with either typing the site's URL in or clicking the link for it.
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@phlipelder said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@scottalanmiller said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@pete-s said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@scottalanmiller said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
If it is under the hood, why bother. If it isn't under the hood, I think customers get confused.
So you mean if it's customer facing it's better to stick to .com and there will be no confusion?
Right, asking customers to type in .app typically comes with problems.
So that's myprog.app.com then?
We've been doing a fair amount of DOMAIN.Social lately (Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04) with folks not having much of an issue with either typing the site's URL in or clicking the link for it.
No surprise there - people don't care - they will simply click anything and everything they see. Hell, You could send an email with - this will infect your computer and I'm guessing half will still click on it.
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@pete-s said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
@scottalanmiller said in What do you think about .app domain names?:
If it is under the hood, why bother. If it isn't under the hood, I think customers get confused.
So you mean if it's customer facing it's better to stick to .com and there will be no confusion?
That is the only aspect that matters tbh, what people / customers think of it. All other aspects have zero impact.
