A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but not all website names are the same. Google this week formally launched the .app domain name, which it says will make for memorable and—more ...

Google’s new .App domain extension is off to a huge start. After posting over 3,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was open to just to trademark holders; .APP generated over $1.7 Million in ...

Over three years after Google paid $25 million to gain the exclusive rights to the “.app” top-level domain, the company is at last making .app domains available to register starting today and running ...

Google has rolled out .app, a new top-level domain (TLD); it is the first TLD to require HTTPS (encrypted) traffic (unencrypted (HTTP) traffic is disallowed), according to an announcement by the ...

Google has become the owner of the .app domain after it outbid other tech companies and decided to shell out $25 million in the process. Ever since the ICANN introduced novelty gTLDs, companies have ...

If Google is awarded the right to manage the domain registrations for .search, .app, .blog and .cloud, there is now a good chance that it won’t just use them for its own services and will open them up ...

Google Buys Rights to .App Top-Level Domain for $25M Google plans to restrict the use of the domain to "relevant developer communities," but won't restrict developers based on which platforms they ...

Currently, there are 22 generic top-level domains, with an additional 250 country-specific domains (like .es and .ly). In its original announcement, ICANN noted that it would cap new generic top-level ...

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