Why are so many application identifiers unavailable?

[fhucho]

Hi,
when I was creating a new App Engine application, most of the
application identifiers were not available. I tried even very weird
identifiers - aitems, bitems, citems, firefoz, helpme, edityou - I
don't beleive anybody has registered any of these.
Anybody knows what causes this strange behaviour?

[Daniel O'Brien]

App Engine's ID namespace is the same as Gmail's, so it's likely that
some of the IDs you're trying to use correspond to Gmail usernames.

Daniel

[wave connexion(BQ)]

Really? that's not good. You mean I cant use my gmail username as appengine ID? I met the same problem. All popular or weird are used up except those using hyphen.

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BQ

[schultzter]

I'm getting frustrated by this too.  I've come up with a great (in my opinion) name but when I try to register (for example, not really the ID I want) xyz.appspot.com it tells me Sorry, "xyz" is not available.

But even more frustrating is that visiting http://xyz.appspot.com results in a 404 Not Found (actually, xyz.appspot.com is a Hello World app, bad example, but you get the point).

So I assume someone is either squatting the name I want or it's an application that was deleted and now the ID is stuck in purgatory!

It would be nice if Google could clean-up and make those deleted ID's available again.  And sweep out some of the squatters (mea culpa, but I don't think anyone wants the random string I tested with originally).

[Jeff Schnitzer]

I believe the app ids are in a global namespace with google accounts.

Jeff

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[Brandon Wirtz]

Users Shouldn’t be hitting YourName.Appspot.com and a well written, well SEO’d app would only return a “about this app” or “Contact this App Owner” page when you hit the AppSpot domain so as to avoid duplicate content.

 

The AppID is really only for people deploying your App.