Gmail address in UK and Germany

Posted by ionut

May 11, 2008

If you are in UK or Germany it seems that it is not possible to directly get a @gmail address (when you register for a new account in the list you will see only @googlemail option) because in these countries the Gmail name is trademarked by other companies. If you really want to have @gmail and not @googlemail then you have a few solutions:

to use a proxy which enables you to make a connection in such a way that your computer is seems to be located in other countries
to use a TOR network
you can use ssh -D , if you have a ssh account in other country and to set SOCKS proxy in your browser (see man ssh for details)

Of course, this is necessary only during the registration for a new email account, after that you can use your new gmail account with normal settings in your browser.

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