QUOTE(Mark420 @ Feb 28 2007, 02:52 AM) ....I firmly think that the US of A would still be under our control And I know the world would be a better place for it All I can say to that's lol...can't say how something 230 yrs ago would've effected the world. Guess you ingrates have no reconlection of us helping you in WWI, what a shame.

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I guess that you, personnally, exactly as for myself, will have no problem.
Your name suggests that you are from a country who will accept the name gmail.com because the domain name has been legally bought by google.
I guess that in some countries like in UK, the new users will see theyr brand new mail accoung being created @googlemail.com instead of being @gmail.com. And that's all.
Except if google accepts to pay 60 million dollars to the guy claiming he is the owner of the name "gmail" in UK, which I think is not the case.
By the way, if somebody wants to give me some millions of dollars in order to use my own brand name "yordan.com" in his country, he is welcome.

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Well you pointed it out in the first place.

Let me give you a little history lesson, because obviously the “Yank” education system has left you deeply lacking in history education as well as spelling When you say WW1 are you reffering to the Great War ? 1914-1918? when the Us of A played both sides for nearly 4 years to see who would win? then stepped in in the dying months of the war in 1918?
Or was world war two when the "Yanks" came into the war right at the end (are you starting to notice the pattern?) when the British and the Russians had done all the hard work and millions of us had died, and just like every war the Us of A has got involved with since..they were only there to get something in return, this time it was Nazi rocket scientists and securing bases in central Europe, and not barrels of oil...and by doing that the good ole US of A created the cold war.
So many of us Europeans actually ask the question did we need them to win? the answer with hindsight is actually NO.
Care to carry on this argument? I could go on all day )))))))

 

 

 

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Please, keep your answers in line with the main subject of this topic.
Else, BuffaloHelp will say that we are spaming again !

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They can't just change things like this. Even though the worst we will go through is namechange, i think it's bad enough. I like the name Gmail. Googlemail sounds awkward. Its too long

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the next story is pretty simplr,first google will try every possible legal way to acquire the doamin and if they dont get it may be they will have to pay that uk company a few million dollars toi get the trademark back,which i am sure that google will have no problem too.google launched gmail as a beta,i dont know much abt trademarks but wouldn't that hurt them in acquiring the trademark,but again a trademark registered in uk may not b e used in us as they dont have any right to it unless they had registered in both countries before the google applied for the trademark,i also thing that the more famous the trademark for a company ,the more it acquires the right to acquire the trademark,basically a trademark is one can say a caollection of letters ,a word or collection of words which symbolises that particular organisation
and in this case if 100 people asked what gmail refers to,all will say a mail service of google not some iiirs or something ,so the case may be straight and clear that the entire right for the trademark should go to google rather than that ul iir company or any other company no matter when they registered a particular trademark and how does a uk registration of trademark wotk at us i ont understand that one

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That's the trick. You find a nice name (even if not a domain-name). And if somebody is successful using this name, you say "Hey ! This name is my property ! You cannot use it !"
Imagine what would have happened if IBM had discovered that "PC" standing for "personal computer" was a brand name deposited by something else !

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Oh My God. I just got Gmail about two weeks ago. I thought it was something new. Will it still run the same as it usually does? Gmail is the best service I've used. It's so fast and easy. I hope they don't do anything to mess it up. I have also started using it as my default email.

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I don't think google will pay 60 millions dollars to IIR (that's the estimated value for the name), so I guess they will switch to another thing. Googlemail sounds too long, I think they will come up with something new, as they always do. In any case, it seems they have lost the UK case, and may as well lose the US case too.
Google it seems has also tried to get gmail.net domain, but the owner wouldn't let go. For him Gmail stands for Grafical mail, and he's not willing to transfer the domain. If I were him, I would settle with some few millions

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I think that is possible that gmail looses only the domain name and this would not affect in any manner to all the gmail users, maybe the only thing that will happen is that google change the domain name to whatever they choose.

BTW, i think that gmail is still in beta phase but what i'm pretty sure is that right now it is open to any user so you dont need an invitation, simply enter the website and register yourself.

Best regards,

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