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Gmail username all taken

Yes i do... But it's horrible a username full of number.

A friend have solved the problem with an username that is not a nickname and not the name.surname But like an object as "postofficemailbox@" or "mydigitalpostoffice@"

(They are only example)

What do you think about?
 
AGX said:
Yes i do... But it's horrible a username full of number.

A friend have solved the problem with an username that is not a nickname and not the name.surname But like an object as "postofficemailbox@" or "mydigitalpostoffice@"

(They are only example)

What do you think about?
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Whatever works for you.
 
I remember in 2013 when Yahoo wipe email accounts that haven't been used for a number of years, and allowed the username usable again. Why don't Google and Apple do this every year? What is the reason for them not to do this?
 
TrenttonY said:
I remember in 2013 when Yahoo wipe email accounts that haven't been used for a number of years, and allowed the username usable again. Why don't Google and Apple do this every year? What is the reason for them not to do this?
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Most of them weren't tied to Yahoo Mail, and weren't being logged into at all. There are people who use Google in general, but not their Gmail inboxes. Likewise, most people probably don't use iCloud, but use their Apple IDs. It's the same thing with Microsoft.

That's not the case with Yahoo these days. There was a time you had an ID for the games client, Geocities, YIM, etc, but most of it is gone now.

You're also talking about usernames that had probably been abandoned for 10+ years.
 
Jessica Lares said:
Most of them weren't tied to Yahoo Mail, and weren't being logged into at all. There are people who use Google in general, but not their Gmail inboxes. Likewise, most people probably don't use iCloud, but use their Apple IDs. It's the same thing with Microsoft.

That's not the case with Yahoo these days. There was a time you had an ID for the games client, Geocities, YIM, etc, but most of it is gone now.

You're also talking about usernames that had probably been abandoned for 10+ years.
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A new system needs to be placed, usernames/emails are getting very tiring. I wonder what is the successor to those.
 
TrenttonY said:
A new system needs to be placed, usernames/emails are getting very tiring. I wonder what is the successor to those.
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What's tiring about that? Phone numbers are probably more tiring in a sense, and we've had those for decades and decades. What would be better?
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TheBean75 said:
This makes me think about when I was first trying to set up my Juno account way back in the free dial up days.

After trying about 30 different name combinations I frustratingly typed in fallopiantubes. It took :|

My first adult e-mail was fallopiantubes@juno.com
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Ah, good old Juno. Don't really recall having a hard time signing up though as my first option went through fine.
 
C DM said:
What's tiring about that? Phone numbers are probably more tiring in a sense, and we've had those for decades and decades. What would be better?
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I don't know, but something is broken if a username once taken, can't be ever reused. I'm think we will just use our names, as YouTube did a few years ago.
 
I remember when email names were provided, no option to choose, and they were random characters and numbers. My first email address was like this: 88828.7471@compuserve.com. "Y'know, those were different times."

I mostly agree about re-using cancelled or years-without-use email accounts, but I am not sure it would change things all that much. The odds of one being released just when you want to use it would be slim, I would think.



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D.T. said:
I agree, and you can still use Gmail though the product for custom domains is branded under Google Apps.

Honestly, if you have a business, and you're doing any sort of professional correspondence through email, you should spend the $12 on a domain, and use some kind of email service that uses that domain (i.e., yourname@bigbiz.com), then you can also setup some aliases like info@, or sales@

Google apps is $5/month, that's not only Email (Gmail), but Docs, Drive, several other services, loads of capacity, etc.
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Yep. Everyone certainly needs a few free junk accounts but it's amazing how few people understand that using a free account of any kind for their primary email account is horribly risky. Free accounts have no support whatsoever, are not portable, and provide no recourse if the provider decides to kill your account.

For that reason, I would not imagine using a free (or ISP-provided) email account for important use. Per D.T.'s suggestion, it's very easy to own your domain name, and use it with a paid Google Apps or Office 365 Business account. So, for $50-$100 per year you can have reliable email, cloud storage, and an office suite. Not only are you then not locked in to any given ISP or mail provider, but you also get support and full manageability of your account configuration. In addition, most paid mail services also provide nearly unlimited aliases for your account for even more flexibility in avoiding spam and registering online accounts using unique email addresses.
 
A professional email will be assigned to you from the company you are working for. Personal emails should be that, personal. Don't use a personal email for business.

If you can't find your exact name for your email you could always go the route of legally changing your name to something unique.
 
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