Look, if I a company owns BAR.COM and they delete FOO@BAR.COM they could recreate that account. Any other service in the world tied to that address will be reco

Look, if I a company owns BAR.COM and they delete FOO@BAR.COM they could recreate that account. Any other service in the world tied to that address will be recovered, except Google's own service. You have knowledge the account belongs to BAR.COM company, why not contact them? How about a warning to the person deleting the account, telling them that a particular GC service is dependent on it? You know exactly what you plan to delete, after all. How about requiring at least two emails on the GC account so that there is an escape hatch? Can you think of any other ways of preventing this disaster? Yeah, I get it, the user should have avoided that mistake. People make mistakes, it's the fact of life. You have built a minefield for your customers and left them to sort through the carnage of the explosion.