googlemail = UK... gmail = US... ? ? ?

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is 'googlemail' still 'gmail' in the us of a? and if so, do new invites from a us of a based account still get a 'gmail' address, rather than 'googlemail' address...? if so, can i be majorly cheeky and and ask anyone who has a spare invite from a us based account to please invite me, albeit to my googlemail account...? :p

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thanks.
 
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Tried it, from a uk account though.

Actually god knows why I bothered lol :o :o

too early for me :D
 
Zefan said:
Tried it, from a uk account though.

Actually god knows why I bothered lol :o :o

too early for me :D
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he he, i was just going to say thanks, but thats still offering me a googlemail one! cheers though!
 
I think it recognises the ip address from the person signing up as being in the UK so it gives you a UK addy ie. googlemail.com. what you need to do is use a proxy when you get the invite so it thinks you are in a different country to the UK.
 
tried it through a proxy based in the us of a, but it still forces it to a googlemail address
 
I *think* this is because of that lawsuit they had. 'gmail' was already registered by another company who took them to court. I have a gmail account as I signed up a looong time ago. When I invited my sister, she got a googlemail account. I think they only do googlemail now.
 
smids said:
I *think* this is because of that lawsuit they had. 'gmail' was already registered by another company who took them to court. I have a gmail account as I signed up a looong time ago. When I invited my sister, she got a googlemail account. I think they only do googlemail now.
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Yes that is correct :)
 
atomiser said:
is 'googlemail' still 'gmail' in the us of a? and if so, do new invites from a us of a based account still get a 'gmail' address, rather than 'googlemail' address...? if so, can i be majorly cheeky and and ask anyone who has a spare invite from a us based account to please invite me, albeit to my googlemail account...? :p
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It doesn't work that way. If I invite you from my gmail account and you sign up and tell it you're from the UK it'll give you a googlemail account. I can set an account up for you myself then give you the UN and pass which you could then change. I've done it for about a half dozen members of this forum so far.

Let me know.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
It doesn't work that way. If I invite you from my gmail account and you sign up and tell it you're from the UK it'll give you a googlemail account. I can set an account up for you myself then give you the UN and pass which you could then change. I've done it for about a half dozen members of this forum so far.

Let me know.
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yes please that would be fantastic - if you could drop the details to the googlemail address above that would be great. thanks! :)
 
Send me an email with the username you want and I'll set it up.

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EDIT: Your name would be helpful too. :)
 
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nice one, i havent had chance to check my email yet (at work), but thank you very much for your help! :)
 
I registered a couple of googlemail accounts a few months back and I found that email sent to me using the gmail.com extension rather than googlemail.com gets to my inbox just fine.
 
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This is a bloomin great idea.

Genius infact, I've never seen it done before...

goes of to build a business plan to tempt the dragsons on dragons den

Seriously, muchos respect, quite clever.

TM
 
juicytuna said:
I registered a couple of googlemail accounts a few months back and I found that email sent to me using the gmail.com extension rather than googlemail.com gets to my inbox just fine.
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But when you register with it, he'll still get a googlemail account as google resolves his IP to being UK based.

I think thats how it works anywho
TM
 
themistry said:
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This is a bloomin great idea.
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What, using an image? Yeah, I do it as it decreases the likelihood that a robot will harvest my name for spamming purposes. It's easier to read that that bill yt heimp aler <at> gm ail <do t> c om gibberish you sometimes see to disguise email addresses. I dig.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
It doesn't work that way. If I invite you from my gmail account and you sign up and tell it you're from the UK it'll give you a googlemail account. I can set an account up for you myself then give you the UN and pass which you could then change. I've done it for about a half dozen members of this forum so far.

Let me know.
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care to tell me how you do this then? I would like to know as i try to make a new account and it keeps trying to give me a googlemail acount


EDIT: Just realised you are from the US!

That would be why then :)

I will email you the details mate if you will?.

Thanks!
 
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Yeah I have 2 gmail account 1 googlemail account, but I'm making a new msn, so would really like to have the gmail insted of the googlemail! :)
 
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