I have confirmed with Google that you can just check the "5 for $9" box on the sign up page and proceed. You will not be charged, as you get the first 5 for free. That page needs to be updated. I checked that box and completed the SNI sign up, and was not charged.
FYI, we still get about 4% of our visitors who are unable to use the SNI SSL. We patch that by sending them the the appspot urls for the site. We are hoping that since MS dropped XP support, that the number will drop off soon enough. For our small sites, $500 per year for VIP was a deal breaker. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.