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In the UK, Gmail now stands for greedy mail
Google has changed the name of its gmail service in the UK into Google Mail following a dispute over the Gmail name with Independent International Investment Research (IIIR).
The latter has been using a email service called Gmail since 2002. Even IIIR realised that it had little affiliation with the name, but it appears that the firm got greedy, demanding up to $64mln for the UK Gmail naming rights.
Google however thought I could make better investments with its billions of dollars, and called IIIR's bluff. Starting today, all new accounts in the UK will receive the googlemail.com domain.
What the world knows as:
in the UK now is:
October 19, 2005 at 11:39 PM | Permalink
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Does it matter? Gmail is still the best!!
Posted-by: Rahul | 20 Oct 2005 06:50:00
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