I just had a weird experience on NameCheap. I found a .app domain that I really liked and wanted to buy it. Unfortunately, I got an error message after trying to add it to my cart.<p>As an example I'll be using `drive.app`. There is no whois record for this domain, but https://domains.google says it's unavailable:<p><pre><code> $ whois -h whois.nic.google drive.app
Domain not found.
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2018-12-29T10:51:11Z <<<
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Here is also a link to my screen capture of domains.google: https://i.imgur.com/an9Gp4M.gif<p>Thanks!
I imagine it's not available. Namecheap does that sometimes. It says something is available when it's not.<p>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.
Funny enough, I did the same thing a few days ago and noticed the same thing.<p>Noticed it was available, then tried to register it and after a refresh it was unavailable.<p>Not sure if it was just a glitch or whether NameCheap was registering domains.