Google reclaims '@gmail.com' for UK email addresses

[Kwackerz]

And about time too. I hate it that my missus has a different 'end' to her email addy than mine. Obviously IIIR have finally been given a pay off now Gmail has become so big in the UK..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/201 ... dia-google

Though Gmail became the standard address with the launch of Gmail in beta in April 2004, UK users who signed up after 19 October 2005 were saddled with the longer address after a legal spat between Google and a UK-based firm. Independent International Investment Research had been using the name 'Gmail' for its own webmail application two years before Google