Andy, thanks, I didn't know about the AppEngine <-> Gmail id relationship. Helps explain why so many AppEngine ids seem to already be taken. BTW, I was able to reserve yada-yada.appspot.com and so might just live with that.
On Oct 10, 11:08 am, Andy Freeman <ana...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Note that the yadayada.appspot.com is reserved for the owner of > yaday...@gmail.com. This association seems reasonable, but means that > any name recycling/reclaiming for appengine must also address gmail > and perhaps other google accounts. > > On Oct 8, 10:09 pm, Donzo <para...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Are there plans to enable deleting Application Ids? Are there plans > > to eventually expire (auto-delete) Application Ids reserved but > > unused??? > > > I'm just getting into GAE and am extremely interested in using it for > > several web sites we now operate. One issue is that almost all the > > GAE application ids corresponding to domains we own are already > > taken ... but none have a live site running. For example, we own > > yadayada.com (not really), but I've found that yadayada.appspot.com is > > already reserved but doesn't have an active web site running. This is > > true for almost all of my domains, some of them rather unique so I > > wonder if appspot.com is not seeing a lot of hoarding of "good" names > > since it's free. > > > This is important to me because of the current inability to use https > > (ssl) AND my domain name for a GAE hosted web site. I do need to > > direct my users to https for some pages ... and am willing to do so if > > I can get yadayada.appspot.com. But since that's already taken, I > > would have to use something else ... which will spook some of my users > > into thinking its an impostor web site (asking for id and password no > > less!!!). > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
