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[CydeWeys]

The Early Access Period is a descending price ("Dutch") auction. The fee will decrease every day at 16:00:00 Z for the first four days throughout the week-long period.

[lambda → CydeWeys]

Is there a list of which registrars are participating in the early access period? None of the ones I tried seemed to recognize .app.

[CydeWeys → lambda]

See https://www.registry.google/about/register.html -- the ones supporting EAP are annotated as such.

[lambda → CydeWeys]

Ah, looks like the registrars were still coming online when I tried. When I first tried Gandi, it didn't seem to like .app, but now it does and lets me choose "landrush," which I assume is the way to buy a domain during the EAP.

[VikingCoder → lambda]

hexonet.net does.

$11,080

then $3,205

$1,625

$1,130

$690

$580

This sucks. This is like, truly evil.

There's two hard problems:

Naming things

Cashing [sic] : Paying for the right to name things

[rtkwe → VikingCoder]

It's only for the current early access period, so if you don't have a named project already I'd suggest just waiting for the period to end then your pricing is steady. We know how to design good auctions but I'm not sure there's any design that'll be kind to purchasers who can't easily evaluate the value of the item to them while still meeting other more basic goals.

[khc → VikingCoder]

the actual two hard problems are cache invalidation and naming things, but cash invalidation doesn't quite fit into that :-P