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Tool makes it possible to park .App domain names

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Free system generates an SSL on your domain name and forwards it to popular domain sales services.

If someone wants to buy your .app domain name they won’t be able to use Whois to contact you. Google Registry does not show .app domain owner information in Whois.

That means you have to park the domain name so people can fill out a contact form to inquire about buying the domain. That’s not easy, either; the domain name you have must have an SSL certificate installed in order to forward to another page.

A domain investor created a simple and free tool to make forwarding domains to landing pages possible: DomainSales.app.

The system is very basic but does just what you need it to. When you submit a domain and point your nameservers to it, it gets a free LetsEncyrpt SSL certificate for your domain. You can then choose to forward the domain to landing pages for many different services: Afternic, Epik, Efty, Sedo, Undeveloped, and Uniregistry as of today.

To see it in action, visit Voicemail.app.

Over 100,000 .App domains already registered

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Google’s .App domain name pops in first day of general availability.

Over 100,000 .app domain names have been registered after less than a day in general availability.

Google Tech Lead Ben McIlwain disclosed the number during a talk at Google I/O this afternoon.

30,000 domain names, ostensibly pre-registrations, were registered within the first three minutes of general availability.

17,000 domain names were registered during the early access period over the past week.

These are stunning numbers for a new top level domain name and could give all new top level domain names some much-needed exposure.

.App domains are off to a strong start with brands

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Over 2,000 .app domains have been registered during sunrise.

If sunrise is any indication, Google’s .app domain name is going to shoot out of the gates.

Sunrise began March 29 and there are already 2,225 names in the zone file. During sunrise, only trademark holders that have registered their marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse can register domain names.

I suspect that companies realize this is one of the better top level domain names and are also concerned about phishing and fake apps that could be distributed at these domains.

Apple has been particularly active, registering 75 .app domain names by my count. Microsoft has 41 and Bank of America has 27 .app domains.

Following Sunrise, a dutch auction early access period will begin on May 1. General availability starts May 8.

While there is an opportunity for domain investors, many of the names have premium prices. About 2% of the hundreds of names I searched for did not have a premium.

Also, domain names must have an SSL certificate to resolve.

Google paid $25 million for the rights to run .app.

Full details about the launch are here.