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

Jeff

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:15 PM, schultzter <e...@schultzter.ca> wrote:

> 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).
>
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