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Gmail comes back to Blighty
ALL SEEING EYE Google has announced that it will reinstate the use of the gmail.com domain for British Gmail users.
The domain name was pulled after a trademark row broke out, leading to the firm using googlemail.com for its UK users. Early adopters who got assigned accounts ending in gmail.com were able to keep their accounts, however.
The firm announced that those users who were assigned accounts on the googlemail.com domain can choose to change. Google also confirmed that new Gmail accounts created "later this week" will be assigned to the gmail.com domain.
Those who do change over to the shorter domain name will have the added advantage of saving around one millijoule of energy every time they type their address, according to the company.
We're surprised, given Google's consumption of energy and bandwidth, that it's not making a bigger deal of the savings in bandwidth due to the shorter email headers that the change will bring. µ
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i've been using gmail.com for years, i heard it was going to change but i didn't recieve any notification so i didn't change it and my gmail.com has always worked
GMail has labels, which are like folders, only better.
An e-mail can have more than one label applied to it, instead of being restricted to being in only one folder.
Of course you could still use labels like folders, but you'd be missing the point a bit.
It would be more useful if G mail allowed you to create folders as most all other e-mail providers do.
I would use it at lot willingly use it more yet because you cannot create folders it just looks an absolute mess.
Gmail.com and googlemail.com although had different ip address they point to the same server cluster. Both may be used simultanouesly when sending e-mail address. In layman's term, even if you registered for googlemail.com you can and could receive e-mails using gmail.com as the ending bit all along.