Hi Nick,
Asking an email-user to transfer an app name would work if email-
users were that savvy (ok gmail users are a bit more techier than non-
gmail users, but still asking them to log into appspot is a bit of a
stretch dont you think?)..
why would people register email accounts similar to popular app
names? remember what happened with domain squatting?
cheers
S
On May 13, 8:42 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
wrote:
> 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
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