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By the way, it is kind of interesting what drives someone to steal someones gmail account and than use it as his own - unless it's name was in some way unique a
by mciancia 9y ago
By the way, it is kind of interesting what drives someone to steal someones gmail account and than use it as his own - unless it's name was in some way unique and desired
- a012 9y agoIt is, to own something like a 3 - 4 letters long username or email address is worth more to some people.
- Brajeshwar 9y agoHow do you get Gmail username with 5 characters or less?
- Ftuuky 9y agoToo late by now I think.
- Zak 9y agoI got my Gmail account in late 2004 and there was a lower limit on username length then.
- thinkythought 9y agoyep, i distinctly remember wanting just my first name and it not allowing it. i have one of the first 500~ accounts, and it wasn't taken
- sangnoir 9y agoYou have to hack an existing one and make it your own, apparently. :-)
- Whitestrake 9y agoEspecially distinguishable words, and especially names. Domains are a great example of this, too. I recently reached out, out of curiosity, and learned that the owner of the .net domain for my own four-letter name wants a quarter of a million dollars for it. A shame, really. They're not doing anything with it, best I can tell. But if that's what someone would pay for it... You can bet someone would try to steal it.