What does a .app domain require?
Registration starts at $8.75 and renewal at $14.93 a year.
Technical obligation
HTTPS only. The whole TLD is HSTS-preloaded in browsers, so a plain-HTTP site will not load — you need a TLS certificate from day one.
This does not affect whether you can buy the name.
What it costs
| Registration | $8.75 / year |
|---|---|
| Renewal | $14.93 / year first year discounted — renewal is the real cost |
| Transfer | $14.93 |
| Smallest possible first bill | $8.75 |
Standard price from Porkbun. Premium and reserved names return the same registry answer as an ordinary free one, so every quote here is a floor rather than a price.
What each registrar charges
| Registrar | First year | Renewal | 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porkbun | $8.75 | $14.93 | $38.61 cheapest first year cheapest over 3 years |
| Dynadot | $9.99 | $14.50 | $38.99 |
| Cloudflare | $14.20 | $14.20 | $42.60 |
Porkbun is cheapest on both the first year and the 3-year total, so the advertised price does not mislead on this extension.
Ranked on the 3-year total rather than the first year, and the horizon is printed because a ranking with a hidden one is a guess about how long you mean to keep the name. Registrars we hold no figure from are absent rather than shown as unpriced.
Source
Read from the registry's own policy page: https://get.app/. Read on 2026-07-29.
Is a .app name free?
Availability comes from the registry itself over RDAP, with a WHOIS fallback where a registry publishes no RDAP service. A throttled or unreachable registry is reported as unconfirmed rather than available. It is the one wrong answer that costs somebody money.
You can check from a terminal or from an assistant instead:
curl https://dotsweep.com/check/yourname.app