Reply to post: Re: Other casual people

Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more

phuzz Silver badge

Re: Other casual people

Had GMail created different domains at national level

IIRC in the UK, they started off with addresses @googlemail.com, because of another company already owning the 'gmail' trademark.

Eventually I assume they threw enough money at the trademark holder that they sold up to Google, and everyone went back to their @gmail.com addresses.

(Reminds me of Sony finding out that my boss had trademarked 'PSP' in the UK)

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