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Comments · 9

  1. Re:Abbreviation by notthe9 · · Score: 1 · on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK

    They're only operating in the UK so they bought http://www.gmail.co.uk/ instead (before google bought gmail.com)

    Indeed they did. And Google has no right to gmail.co.uk. However, my comment was that "If this company wanted gmail.com, they should have bought it." It so happens that GoogleMail is at gmail.com, and CCMS's gmail is at gmail.co.uk. Just as Javeo operates a site at gmail.net. CCMS's having the legitamite service called GMail in the UK does not mean that Google is not allowed to abbreviate the names of their services anywhere on the internet. If I go to bn.com, that doesn't mean the the company name is bn rather than Barnes & Noble, Inc.

  2. Phony Trademark It Is by stefaanh · · Score: 1 · on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK

    To http://gmail.co.uk/ I went.
    A webmail front I saw.
    Contensis CMS product I read.
    To http://www.contensis.net/ I went.
    For gmail I searched.
    Nothing I did find.

  3. Re:Abbreviation by prattle · · Score: 1 · on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK
    They're only operating in the UK so they bought http://www.gmail.co.uk/

    What I'm wondering is how Google got this far down the road with gmail before bumping into these other folks. I mean, if only they had had some way to search the web for companies using name 'X' before they decided to use it themselves... :-)

  4. Re:Abbreviation by Comboman · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK
    If this company wanted gmail.com, they should have bought it.

    They're only operating in the UK so they bought http://www.gmail.co.uk/ instead (before google bought gmail.com). One of the biggest problems with the current DNS system is that if you register http://www.nasa.gov/ it doesn't stop someone else from buying http://www.nasa.net/, http://www.nasa.com/, http://www.nasa.org/, or whatever. Time to get rid of top level domains altogether.

  5. Re:I doubt that was their intention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New Legal Threat To GMail

    Website is still up, at least: http://www.gmail.co.uk/

  6. Re:Intellectual property rights to GMail? by Comboman · · Score: 1 · on New Legal Threat To GMail

    They did register the domain http://www.gmail.co.uk/. Too bad they didn't register www.gmail.com while they were at it, that would have prevented the whole problem in the first place (Google would have had to find a different name for their service). Maybe we should all use the link to try to log on to their private web email service to show our support for them ;-)

  7. Re:gmail.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New Legal Threat To GMail

    No but i am guessing they did register http://gmail.co.uk/ since they are a uk company.

  8. Re:Sounds like bull by CmdrGravy · · Score: 1 · on New Legal Threat To GMail

    http://www.gmail.co.uk/ is not owned by Google.

  9. There are a lot of Gmails out there by clamhan · · Score: 1 · on Gmail Under Trademark Dispute

    http://www.gmail.co.uk/
    http://www.gmail.de/
    http://www.gmail.no/
    http://www.gmail.it/
    http://www.gmail.dk/
    http://www.gmail.ru/
    http://www.gmail.net/
    http://www.gmail.org.uk/
    http://www.gmail.cn/