

So, with the Gmail trademark already taken, users there were assigned an email address of the format. In the Russian Federation, the trademark is owned by a Russian mail redirect service,. In Poland, the Gmail trademark domain is owned by a Polish poet group, Grupa Mlodych Artystów i Literatów-which is abbreviated “GMAiL”.

In each case, the Gmail trademark was unavailable, so Google was forced to use “googlemail” and therefore instead. Those countries originally were Germany, the Russian Federation, and Poland. The “” Domain: For two countriesĪlternatively, is for Gmail users of a particular country where “Gmail”, as a trademark, was already taken. Plus, if you see you are getting spam sent to a particular “name+suffix” email address, you will know which sources have somehow gotten your email address in the hands of spammers. This way, you could immediately know which incoming emails were personal and which were business related. So, for example, your friends might write you to, but you could give out to business contacts and it will also go to that same inbox. One possible use for this “+” trick is that you can “tag” email that are coming in from certain sources.
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So, emails sent to will be sent to the inbox (although I should also note that when I tested this by sending an email to myself, for some reason I didn’t receive the email at all-but it did work when someone else sent me an email using the same address with the plus symbol in it). So, for example, is treated exactly the same as, though the first one might be slightly easier to read, because the words are separated with the dot.Īnother is that you can put a plus sign (“+”) anywhere in the name portion and Gmail will ignore everything to the right of that plus until it gets to the symbol. One is that you can put one or more dots within the name part, however you want, and it won’t affect anything. The email domain in use.īefore we get to the other domains, here are two fun facts about using your domain. This is for regular Gmail users, and takes the form of “ “. The most well-known domain for email is, of course,. The “” Domain: What most of us have for email Whether or not you use GMass, it’s useful to understand the difference between the three different domains that Google uses for email:, , and . Let´s take a quick look at how these three differ.
