Is it gmail.com or googlemail.com? The answer to this question depends on the country that you are living in and the time you have registered a Google Mail account. Most users have the email address in the format username@gmail.com with the notable exception of users from Germany and the United Kingdom who both use the default address username@googlemail.com unless they have registered an account before June 2005 or October 2005 in which case they were allowed to keep the gmail.com email address.
Legal disputes in those two jurisdictions forced Google to change the default email address from gmail.com to googlemail.com with the rule that an already registered gmail.com username would not allow the registration of the googlemail.com username and vice verse.
It is also interesting to note that the two Google mail domains are interchangeable. Mails send to username@gmail.com will reach username@googlemail.com users and vice verse.
The administrative email address for users from those two countries has been the googlemail.com address ever since. Users from the United Kingdom have seen a recent change as Google announced that it would phase out googlemail.com addresses. New registrations from the UK will now get a gmail.com email address while old users have the choice to convert their googlemail.com address to gmail.com.
Only users from Germany are left with googlemail.com email addresses while the rest of the world enjoys gmail.com addresses.
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Yeah I am based in the UK and setup my gmail back in the days when you had to have an invite.
Both gmail.com and googlemail.com works with my email address which is cool.
You can also use “email”+whatever@gmail/googlemail.com For example normal mail will be 22@gmail.com can be 22+spam@gmail.com and it will still get through but can be used as a throw away account.
My account was set up in late 2006 in the U.S. & it is a gmail address.Or so I use it.
This seems to be a distinction without a difference.
There was a way to get gmail mail addresses by using proxies or specific sites that allowed this. Still, you can use both and the emails will arrive, no big deal on the end user side.
Simplify further. John.jane@g.com
hallo , how ar u
I like gmail. Nd what’s ur beim