Re:Ask HN: Why can't I buy this .app domain?
by jeremija on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:33AM
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Yeah 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.
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Re:Ask HN: Why can't I buy this .app domain?
by throwaway8879 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:41AM
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I'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".