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title: "Gwhizz – Google drops Gmail name in UK"
date: 2005-10-19
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
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# Gwhizz – Google drops Gmail name in UK

[The Times of UK reports:](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508061547/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1833140,00.html)

> “Google has dropped the Gmail name for its e-mail service in the UK following a long-running row with a small British company that has claimed the rights to the trademark. \[…\] From today new users of Google’s e-mail service will get an @googlemail.com address. Those that have already signed up will keep their @gmail.com addresses.”

This is a blow to Google, because the name Gmail has become almost as synonymous with web email as Skype with Internet telephony.

I wonder if the ‘G’ brand of products is being re-thought? 😉 Google has already [purchased these domains](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508061547/http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/txt/google_dom.html):

Gbrowser.com Gbrowser.net Gbrowser.org Gcalendar.com Gchat.biz Gchat.us Gdrive.com

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gwhizz_google_d.php))*