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- UncleRummy, on 11/09/2007, -2/+20Jesus, people. Google IGNORES DOTS IN USERNAMES. This means that once yourname@gmail.com is registered, YOU CAN'T REGISTER your.name@gmail.com or any other variation with dots. Try it before getting all flustered, for Christ's sake. Ryan Coleman even edited his article that kicked off this moronic controversy to admit that he was mistaken, and the other person's email he was receiving was merely a matter of people misspelling the intended address.
- michael.calfee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8unclerummy, you're right. I registered first.last@gmail. So I immediately tried to go register firstlast@gmail to no one else would get it. But it was already registered! Oh no! That's because Gmail does not recognize dots. So by registering first.last@gmail.com, you've automatically registered firstlast@gmail.com and fi.rstlast@gmail.com and whatever other combination of dots you can put into the address. Just to test this, I sent an email to firstlast@gmail.com and I received it at first.last@gmail.com. So everyone can stop worrying. Stories about receiving other people's email are due to user error in mispelling the address. Please block/report this item.
- michael.calfee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The only reason I have a dot in my gmail address is because that was the RECOMMENDED address Google gave me when registering.
- netpioneer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have an account without dots and I am receiving emails addressed to someone else's account with dots. First, I suspected of social engineering but I opened one message and found to be personal stuff. Very bad!
- utdiscant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You cant register an email with a dot if the email without dot is already registered...
- MarcoRaaphorst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no bug, a feature ;)
- Coletrickle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I see. But i wonder of they're aware of the problem that you can register a name without the dots. Well, they should now, i has been on every blog. I wonder how they're gonna solve this. Fix the hole, and delete the youngest acount? Or let the server recognize dots.
- Coletrickle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it confirms that dots are not recognized, not that other peoples mail ends up in the wrong inbox
- PayneX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I noticed this when i was first registering my google addresses.
You can't register a dotted variation of an name that's already registered.
You people are nuts.
Personally, i think it's becoming cool to hate google, ala Microsoft.
This will be a spectacular about-turn on public opinion. I'm going on record to say that google are still, and always will be teh *****! - GLSmyth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This bug caused me problems I wrote about, but everyone poo-pooed it at the time. It is good to see that some attention has been given to the problem.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2unclerummy- I registered my e-mail address with a dot in the name-- someone else registered the same address without the dot... and now I am getting e-mails addressed to the non-dotted name, not intended for me.
- idiggurls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well it seems to be true in my case. I have first.last@gmail.com. When I send an email to first.last@gmail.com, I get the email right away. But when I send it to firstlast@gmail.com, I don't get anything. And sometimes, I do get email meant for firstlast@gmail.com -- I wonder if he gets any of my mine. This is ***** up! GMAIL SUX balls.
I can't wait for Yahoo to release their renewed Yahoo! Mail. - DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I bet they are already working to fix it, as this could be viewed by the public as a huge security issue. All you have to do to get someone's email is to create a new account with the same name and just put a dot randomly somewhere in the name. Gmail will let you create the account, then you start receiving the other guy's email. Bad!
- mrWoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I sent an email to firstlast@gmail.com to test if i will get my own email, and i did not get an email back. My real email is first.last@gmail.com. So, anything people sent to firstlast@gmail.com seems to be lost. The "help" that google mail offers about this problems seems to be wrong.
- alexrandall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1rnWhen i created my gmail account, I couldn't get nickname@gmail.com but able to get nick.name@gmail.com. rnrnRecently, I accidently clicked "remmember my password button" on public computer and later had to come back to delete the cookies. I founded out that changing the password will not expire the session from the public computer.rnrnI'm chaning back to yahoo.rn
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does this mean that if I registered an email without dots and it was available, I would be getting the other persons emails? hmmm hehehe
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's BETA, why is everyone complaining so much!?
;) - J0hnS, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1This is false....nearly three years later and I still receive mail intended for other folks.
- rhnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It seems theyved fixed it you cant register example@gmail.com if you want to get mail from ex.ample@gmail.com
- Coletrickle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1unclerummy: So you're saying that after a year of no troubles at all, now all of a sudden everybody is misspelling his emailaddress? I've read about a lot of people who suffer from this problem. it's a bit to much to be coincidence
- davidleeroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I only use ISP email for *****.
- Tezkah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Email servers should ignore dots.
"I just sent Google an email saying that they better have there system to recognize dots within the Next 48hrs or i will be seting up a Class Action Lawsuit. there Fix for this is so F-ing lame so they better fix this. I'm seting up a site for anyone & everyone to join in this Class Action Lawsuit site will be up 2 days after there 48hrs deadline i gave to them."
you're a retard. It is a free service from google, they could shut your email account down and there would be no recourse you would have against them. Idiots. - peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1" Google IGNORES DOTS IN USERNAMES. "
I have "firstname.lastname@gmail.com" and just tried sending an email to " "firstname.lastnam.e@gmail.com" and never received the email.
According to google's help I should have received the email. It seems like google is messing with the dot handling to temporarily alleviate a bug. - UncleRummy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, here's Ryan Coleman's updated blog entry. If you still don't believe, go ahead and try to register a name identical to yours but with added dots (or removed dots if you already have them in there). Can't be done.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heres a better solution, don't use dots :p
- TinMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My gmail account has a dot in it (first.last name) and I was wondering why I was getting emails from people at MTV productions and what not. It was actually pretty cool to get information about upcoming shows for a few tv channels. Now I know.
- whitefael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Users may not be able to register a "dot" name if the same name without dots is already registered, but that's something that was recently fixed. Over the summer of 2005, someone registered my user name with dots and I suddenly started receiving a lot of his personal email. Google ignored complaints for quite awhile. They may have fixed it now, but what about the accounts that have already been created? They are still active and causing problems! Luckily for me, the other person registered an new account and I don't see emails for him anymore.
- martz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i just tested something... i registered my first.last name for my gmail address... i just sent an email to first last, and then f.irstlast and received both emails, both show up on gmail as having already been taken
- whistle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This article is untrue and just a bunch of poor journalistic sensation. You can try it yourself. In gmail system, if you had registered with first.last@gmail.com, no one can reregister firstlast@gmail.com since it is automatically yours. This is done so that if someone sends you an email and forgets to put the dot, you would still get it. Stupid reporters, atleast they gotta get the story right than just creating panic among users.
No more to this, just move along. - JohntB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, come on you morons. Just because you can't register the emails both with and without dots now, that doesn't mean you couldn't in the past. I know for certain that I (who have a dot in my name) have been getting sent the email of someone without a dot in his name for at least the last half-year. Just because google fixed the registration now doesn't mean that there isn't a problem. Unless, that is, that you want to believe that someone has been giving out my email address as his own for the last half of a year, and still hasn't noticed the problem yet.
- eyepodder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not the only email server that does this. At work we use Lotus Domino and if put a "." between my first last name I will still get the email for example.
firstname.lastname@domain.com will work as well as
firstnamelastname@domain.com
Looks like it drops the "." and routes the mail either way. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And if the non-dot variation was reserved some how to protect me, and I can receive all email with all-dot variations, then I should be able to login with any dot or no-dot variation.
- BluParadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This used to be a problem with gmail's registration system in that they used to let you register duplicate names if you had the extra dot, but fixed that a very long time ago. Only a few duplicate accounts actually exist and no more can be created.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have two emails with dots in them, first.last@gmail.com and website.tld@gmail.com
I noticed I get emails to firstlast@gmail.com (spam). It won't let me register firstlast, maybe someone else got it now? I asked for the password and it never came, so it must be someone else's now. How does this affect me? I havn't got those firstlast spams in a while. So is first.last different than firstlast now? It also says websitetld already exists, but my password doesn't work with that either, and I never got the sign up email.
I'm not sure how the "dot anywhere forwarding" thing will work. will f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t go to first.last or firstlast? If they were going to include that feature they should have planned for it. Someone else potentially owns firstlast and websitetld now, and my dot variations will go there instead. Their help page doesn't make this clear when someone else owns the non-dot variation. - TykSak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Update: Ryan Coleman has since admitted he was mistaken, and that the e-mails he received addressed to ryancolemand@gmail.com were misaddressed.
- rvidal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So I would suspect that email addresses without the dot would not have to worry about having their email misdelivered, right?rnOnly those with a dot in their email address could or would have the messages misdelivered.rnrnAm I right?rnrnPS: I'm talking about back when it was still possible to register both variations. Dot and dot-less.
- richstyles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, looks like the article was spawned from a mistaken Digg article and now it's been dugg again in a never-ending spiral. haha.
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0""Gmail doesn't recognize dots (.) as characters within a username. This way, you can add and remove dots to your username for desired address variations. messages sent to your.username@gmail.com and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are delivered to the same inbox, since the characters in the username are the same."
Jeez...people...read..."
And I tried this with my username AND IT DOES NOT WORK. So it seems like they are messing around with the dot handling to fix a big. - peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Another user here who had to settle for the dot in the name due to firstlast@gmail.com already being taken. I registered 10/09/04.
So right now I have no idea if firstlast@gmail.com has been getting all of my email since then. It does seem that way, thanks Google!"
I'm in the same boat and I am pissed. I have had online order confirmations sent to my gmail, message board registrations with username/password mentioned, etc. - Tezkah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"FREE GMAIL! : http://mail.google.com/mail/a-7627bf666-ca925d110a-6fc7843b78"
no1kissfan@Bellsouth.net? you use ISP email? hah, what happens when you try and switch ISPs? You're screwed. You're at the mercy of the ISP when you want to change. trust me, I work for an ISP, and retards DEPEND on their @ISP.net email. - zarniwoop42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have registered a dot Account last year because the non-dotted username was already taken. Till now I did not receive strange E-mails but I also can't login to the non-dotted account with my dotted-account password. rnrnPerhaps they fixed the bug NOW and people can't register those already-dotted accounts these days. But perhaps the bug was there? And this makes me scared. rnrnOn the other hand I think people would have published this bug much earlyer ... if it was really there. Really strange,
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The lack of fixing this dot bug in the gmail username is just as bad as Microsoft's lack of IE fixes. It's really irritating when I get other emails sent to don.wilson@gmail.com
- smur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is true that Google prevents you from registering both 'dotted" and "dotless" versions of a name. The question is, was there ever a version that permitted such names? If there ever was such a version, some users are in trouble. Google must respond. Personally, I find their on-line help to be evasive on this topic.
- narzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0try logging in to your account without the dots tho, if someone registered firstnamelastname@gmail.com and you registered firstname.lastname@gmail.com in the past gmail recognized them as two different login names and two different accounts, so when I log in to google I have to type user.name@gmail.com as username@gmail.com doesn't work however if someone else has username@gmail.com and I have user.name@gmail.com we both get each others mail.
- manatee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe people sending email should simply leave out the dot.
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried it it didnt work. Maybe its fixed now.
- quailtamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another user here who had to settle for the dot in the name due to firstlast@gmail.com already being taken. I registered 10/09/04.
So right now I have no idea if firstlast@gmail.com has been getting all of my email since then. It does seem that way, thanks Google! - chillthendral, on 01/21/2009, -0/+0Yes. This restriction has been introduced after sometime. Bu gmail initially allowed dot to differntiate the usernames. So what will happen for the ids which are created before this restriction?
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