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I imagine it's not available. Namecheap does that sometimes. It says something is available when it's not. Incidentally, I own a drive.* domain. Have no idea i
by throwaway8879 8y ago
I imagine it's not available. Namecheap does that sometimes. It says something is available when it's not.
Incidentally, I own a drive.* domain. Have no idea if it's worth anything. I've been meaning to point it at my personal nextcloud instance but been too lazy.
- jeremija 8y agoYeah I figured it happens because they only check if there is a WHOIS record. At first I thought they registered it automatically after I showed interest (like people claim GoDaddy does sometimes), but that's why I started investigating. Looks like domains.google is the "source of truth" since Google owns .app after all. I've previously thought that if a domain is not available, there would be a WHOIS record, but I guess that's not the case here.
- throwaway8879 8y agoI'm not sure whether public WHOIS records cover all TLDs or not. Perhaps the newer ones like .app are not available? In any case, running whois on drive.app in the terminal tells me "domain not found".