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Godaddy enables you to preregister at the moment. This is only a preorder and doesn't guarantee the domain.

CydeWeys 8y ago
You can register a domain name at this moment during the Early Access Period through any registrar which supports it (which includes GoDaddy and many others listed at https://www.registry.google/about/register.html https://www.registry.google/about/register.html ). It's not a pre-registration; the domain is created and assigned to you immediately.
- skybrian 8y ago
  This list is useful, but the early access domains are mostly unfamiliar to me. Does anyone have any recommendations?
- icebraining 8y ago
  GoDaddy is confusing. They only have "Pre-Registration" and "Priority Pre-Registration", the latter showing the days of the EAP, but it only says you can "increase your chances of getting this domain", not that you get it right now.
  - developer2 8y ago
    Aka GoDaddy is running a dirty scam. There should be no such thing as "priority pre-registration". They're just trying to grab more money. GoDaddy is the worst company you could ever look at for domain registration. Use literally anybody else.
- jeffmould 8y ago
  To be blunt, this is a horrible roll-out by Google. It is a perfect example of the right hand not talking to the left hand, or the rest of the body for that matter. Several significant issues: 1) The announcement is made by Google, yet Google is not accepting EAP registrations. Very confusing. 2) The registrars accepting EAP are not as widely known as you would expect for something like this, meaning that I am going to have to pay to registrar now and then a transfer fee to transfer to my primary register down the road. 3) GoDaddy is listed as an EAP registrar, however, they are only accepting pre-registrations at this time. On top of that, they found a way to be even more shady by charging a $173.99 for "Priority Pre-Registration".
  - CydeWeys 8y ago
    The right hand cannot talk to the left hand in this case, however. It's a complicated space to operate in. Start here if you're a policy wonk: https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-registry-registrar-separation-21feb11-en.pdf https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-regi... Whether registrars support EAP, and how they implement it, is entirely up to each registrar. If you have complaints about any specific registrar practices, or about registrars not supporting it full stop, then those should be directed at the registrar in question.
    - grepthisab 8y ago
      The complaint is against Google, not any particular domain registrar, to be fair. At first glance it seems like you’ve botched this roll out for the (preventable) reasons mentioned above. Wordpress, although I didn’t agree with some choices they made when doing it, did a wonderful job rolling out the dot blog TLD, as a counterpoint.
      - CydeWeys 8y ago
        We literally cannot coordinate anything between the registry and registrar though. I agree with you that we (the registry) could have done a better job on our marketing website in making it clearer which registrars offer support for which phases, but beyond that? Not sure.
  - bigiain 8y ago
    The $173 is a "Phase 7 Pre Registration", for the low low just for you price of $16,000 you can have a Phase 1 Priority Registration! They're just auctioning off all the good names - same as every other domain squatting rent seeker...
- jeffmould 8y ago
  There has to be an error somewhere on a couple registrars. Trying through 101Domain adding a domain to the cart results in a total of $12,025.16 USD. I can get it slightly cheaper at Yay.com for $10,209.09.
  - CydeWeys 8y ago
    Different registrars set different prices. .com domains cost different amounts across different registrars too. It's not a mistake, and if price factors into your determination of which registrar to use, then that totally makes sense.
    - bigiain 8y ago
      Right - so you've just built this to give bdirty scammers another way with which to rip everybody off. Thanks for that. Lucky "Do no evil" isn't written on the wall there anymore...
- fapjacks 8y ago
  This is not true. One of my friends and myself have both paid for registration of different .app domains and some ten hours later it still says pending at two different vendors listed there as EAP providers.

You can register a domain name at this moment during the Early Access Period through any registrar which supports it (which includes GoDaddy and many others listed at https://www.registry.google/about/register.html https://www.registry.google/about/register.html ). It's not a pre-registration; the domain is created and assigned to you immediately.

skybrian 8y ago
This list is useful, but the early access domains are mostly unfamiliar to me. Does anyone have any recommendations?
icebraining 8y ago
GoDaddy is confusing. They only have "Pre-Registration" and "Priority Pre-Registration", the latter showing the days of the EAP, but it only says you can "increase your chances of getting this domain", not that you get it right now.
- developer2 8y ago
  Aka GoDaddy is running a dirty scam. There should be no such thing as "priority pre-registration". They're just trying to grab more money. GoDaddy is the worst company you could ever look at for domain registration. Use literally anybody else.
jeffmould 8y ago
To be blunt, this is a horrible roll-out by Google. It is a perfect example of the right hand not talking to the left hand, or the rest of the body for that matter. Several significant issues: 1) The announcement is made by Google, yet Google is not accepting EAP registrations. Very confusing. 2) The registrars accepting EAP are not as widely known as you would expect for something like this, meaning that I am going to have to pay to registrar now and then a transfer fee to transfer to my primary register down the road. 3) GoDaddy is listed as an EAP registrar, however, they are only accepting pre-registrations at this time. On top of that, they found a way to be even more shady by charging a $173.99 for "Priority Pre-Registration".
- CydeWeys 8y ago
  The right hand cannot talk to the left hand in this case, however. It's a complicated space to operate in. Start here if you're a policy wonk: https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-registry-registrar-separation-21feb11-en.pdf https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-regi... Whether registrars support EAP, and how they implement it, is entirely up to each registrar. If you have complaints about any specific registrar practices, or about registrars not supporting it full stop, then those should be directed at the registrar in question.
  - grepthisab 8y ago
    The complaint is against Google, not any particular domain registrar, to be fair. At first glance it seems like you’ve botched this roll out for the (preventable) reasons mentioned above. Wordpress, although I didn’t agree with some choices they made when doing it, did a wonderful job rolling out the dot blog TLD, as a counterpoint.
    - CydeWeys 8y ago
      We literally cannot coordinate anything between the registry and registrar though. I agree with you that we (the registry) could have done a better job on our marketing website in making it clearer which registrars offer support for which phases, but beyond that? Not sure.
- bigiain 8y ago
  The $173 is a "Phase 7 Pre Registration", for the low low just for you price of $16,000 you can have a Phase 1 Priority Registration! They're just auctioning off all the good names - same as every other domain squatting rent seeker...
jeffmould 8y ago
There has to be an error somewhere on a couple registrars. Trying through 101Domain adding a domain to the cart results in a total of $12,025.16 USD. I can get it slightly cheaper at Yay.com for $10,209.09.
- CydeWeys 8y ago
  Different registrars set different prices. .com domains cost different amounts across different registrars too. It's not a mistake, and if price factors into your determination of which registrar to use, then that totally makes sense.
  - bigiain 8y ago
    Right - so you've just built this to give bdirty scammers another way with which to rip everybody off. Thanks for that. Lucky "Do no evil" isn't written on the wall there anymore...
fapjacks 8y ago
This is not true. One of my friends and myself have both paid for registration of different .app domains and some ten hours later it still says pending at two different vendors listed there as EAP providers.