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[mayank]

From October 19th, 2005 any person who signs up for the Gmail service they will have any email as username@googlemail.com and it is for only those people who live in THE UK. The reason for this is that another company in the UK has claimed the rights of the trademark of gmail as their own trade mark and google is trying their level best to make sure that there trademark stays with them....if they loose then it will be googlemail otherwise it will stay as GMAIL only.

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[tajimd]

Thanks God IT wont effect us. Else i had to subscibe to lots of newletter again. By the which company has claimed the Gmail trademark

[Spectre]

As long as it doesn't affect you, it has no significance whatsoever, right?

Anyway, this has been up in the air for a while. If you remember from around the time Gmail first commenced, a company already operating from Gmail.co.uk filed a suit against them (or sought to take some other form of legal action against Google, I don't really remember).

[alperuzi]

Bah, I can foresee that there will be a lot of demand for proxies from other countries in the UK, just for singing up on gmail!

[arboc7]

Thanks for the news...but that's also a shame...

[[i]_R_Crazy_Idiot]

Heh, at least it's only in the UK.

[wild20]

I am just glad they are not changing are names we already have. It's kind of dumb. Oh well. Thanks for the info. I wish the company would at least compromise. Then it wouldn't effect so many people. Hey keep us updated Mayank if anything changes. Thanks again.

[noplans]

so if my friend email in UK, i still can send with *@gmail.com? and will directed to googlemail?

[tajimd]

I think this is the first time ever Google has faced such a problem.

[Florisjuh]

Bah... gmail.co.uk is just a little private mailing system, and google has to change names for it? x[

Well that will make the "Google controls the World" stories a bit weaker *shrug*