Gmail In The Uk

Now this news is from a few days ago, but for all you that dont know here it is.

Ok well the basics are that a man in the UK has rights to the name Gmail in the UK only.
Google tried to negotiate with the man only to fail.

Now anyone in the UK getting a new Gmail address will be getting an @googlemail.com address.
For example if i lived in the UK and were to register my account i would not get [email protected] but rather [email protected]

One little way to fight the system is to get someone not in the UK to create a Gmail account for you and then send you the login details. That way you would still use @gmail.com

This took effect October 19th, 2005. Which was 3 days ago.

Source: https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html

 

i dont quite understand....will it effect any of the gmail users in the US? (me)?

 

No.
Read the sorce page for more info
As i stated, its only in the UK

 

Nope. Not at all.

What it means, basically, is that anyone signing up AFTER this new googlemail thing was introduced that lives in the UK will get a whatever@[b]googlemail[/b].com address instead of whatever@[b]gmail[/b].com.

I live in the UK but because I signed up to Gmail before this was introduced, I stay with my @gmail.com address.

 

lol thats quite funny. The guys an idiot though. Why doesnt he just ask google for a hundred grand and they give it to him if they get the rights.

 

it doent make much of a difference though just say you live in some other country and you can still get an @gmail.com one

 

I believe they go by IP addresses
And you never get to say what country you are in when making a Gmail account i dont believe, so that doesnt help at all

 

Use a proxy that's in another country B)