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Took me a while to figure out that Google Domains isn't participating in the Early Access Program.

Apparently the "additional fee" for early access is extraordinarily high from some registrars.

For example -> https://imgur.com/a/E9WRqTI

The Early Access Period is a descending price ("Dutch") auction. The fee will decrease every day at 16:00:00 Z for the first four days throughout the week-long period.

Is there a list of which registrars are participating in the early access period? None of the ones I tried seemed to recognize .app.

hexonet.net does.

$11,080

then $3,205

$1,625

$1,130

$690

$580

This sucks. This is like, truly evil.

There's two hard problems:

Naming things

Cashing [sic] : Paying for the right to name things

the actual two hard problems are cache invalidation and naming things, but cash invalidation doesn't quite fit into that :-P

It's only for the current early access period, so if you don't have a named project already I'd suggest just waiting for the period to end then your pricing is steady. We know how to design good auctions but I'm not sure there's any design that'll be kind to purchasers who can't easily evaluate the value of the item to them while still meeting other more basic goals.

See https://www.registry.google/about/register.html -- the ones supporting EAP are annotated as such.

Ah, looks like the registrars were still coming online when I tried. When I first tried Gandi, it didn't seem to like .app, but now it does and lets me choose "landrush," which I assume is the way to buy a domain during the EAP.

I just tried to buy one. Got an email saying I'd be invoiced on allocation of that domain to the registrar. WTF does that mean? How can they take my money if they don't even know they'll have the domain to sell?

I believe that, as a general policy, registrars refund your money if they don't actually manage to acquire the domain name on your behalf.

webnames.ca says "If the domain cannot be registered on your behalf for any reason, there will be no cost to you."

"on allocation" means if/when they acquire it themselves to assign to you. If that doesn't happen, you don't get invoiced.

have you checked other registars? it's about 20eur on gandi.

https://shop.gandi.net/en/domain/suggest?search=whatthefucki...

It's $15 after early access ends on yay.com

Cheers for this link.

Taking recommendations for what to do with my new domain, donaldtrump.app

This might be a good litmus test to see which registrars look out for their customers.

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