Hi Sri, There's no way to see why an App ID is taken, unfortunately. As far as 'transferring' a username goes, any user can register an app with the same name as their gmail account, so if you can convince the owner of the account to register the app with the same name as their address, and then add you as an administrator, you can remove their administrator privileges and take control of the app (with their permission, of course!)
People could create gmail accounts just to prevent a name being used in App Engine, but it's not clear to me why they'd want to do that. -Nick Johnson On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Sri <sri.pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > Thanks for that mate. But yeah that still is a bit inconvinient > given that most gmail users may not even be app developers. > > Also is it possible to show which of the cases the violation is off? > I mean whether if it is an existing gmail ID or an already registered > app. Or perhaps a way to atleast talk to the gmail user to get some > kind of "Transfer" of the app name... > > Also by tying app names to gmail user names, doesnt it incentivize > spammers to create fake accounts just to prevent a name from being > used for an app? > > cheers > Sri > > On May 13, 6:19 pm, David Wilson <d...@botanicus.net> wrote: >> Hey Sri, >> >> For whatever strange reason, App IDs that conflict with Gmail >> usernames are reserved by default. That means if >> legendofthefiveri...@gmail.com is somebody's e-mail address, you can't >> use it for your appspot domain. >> >> David >> >> 2009/5/12 Sri <sri.pan...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> > Does GAE place any restrictions on app engine titles via some >> > automatic algorithms? I mean it may just be squatters doing what they >> > do best, but does Google place any restrictions? Like dictionary >> > words or plurals of existing games etc? >> >> > I am not looking for any rude or obscene words but when writing a game >> > a lot of "legend" related titles seem to be taken. Surely there cant >> > be that many games out there on app engine right? >> >> > cheers >> > Sri >> >> -- >> It is better to be wrong than to be vague. >> — Freeman Dyson > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
