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Gmail? Not In Germany

Started by Duncan Riley · 1 year ago

Google is evidently no longer using the name Gmail in Germany.

Philipp Lenssen discovered the interesting change over on his Google Blogoscoped site. Apparently, Lenssen says, navigating to gmail.com in Germany now results in a splashscreen message:

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  • I've only seen the warning today... damn, somebody hack* the DNS entries, I want my gmail.com back! :(

    * not illegally of course. If you run your own DNS-server you can redirect gmail.com to mail.google.com (or via a 3rd server that does an HTTP-redirect)
  • Actually it is Google who made the mistake. This man owned the German rights for the name GMail in the first place, and Google apparently started their service here without checking name rights. The person who offers services under gmail.de has every interest that his more or less innovative concept is not confused with Google, who only offer a trivial freemail service without major innovations.

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