Sunday, July 12, 2009

How do I get a @gmail.com email, rather that an @googlemail.com email?

I've seen lots of people with @gmail.com at the end, yet when I go to sign up for a googlemail account it won't let have a @gmail.com email, only an xxxxx@googlemail.com account. How can I get a @gmail.com account? Thank you!
How do I get a @gmail.com email, rather that an @googlemail.com email?
What country are you in? The domain gmail.com is unavailable in certain countries, in which cases users are able to use the domain googlemail.com. The Gmail service does not discriminate between these two domains for incoming e-mails, therefore a user with the address "john.doe@googlemail.com" will receive mail sent to "john.doe@gmail.com", and vice-versa. Accordingly, users obliged to use the googlemail.com domain are unable to select addresses already chosen by gmail.com users.

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