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I have lastname.firstname@gmail.com because first.last was already taken. Just curious, do gmail accounts ever expire? Will I ever get the chance to snag the o
by jspash 11mo ago
I have lastname.firstname@gmail.com because first.last was already taken.
Just curious, do gmail accounts ever expire? Will I ever get the chance to snag the other one? Or does it forever belong to my nemesis and life-long enemy?
- eth0up 11mo agoUnused they have a half-life. Google Voice numbers much more aggressively so. It's somewhere in the document.
- roywiggins 11mo agoAfter two years of inactivity: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en
- krainboltgreene 11mo agoThis answer is not actually correct. I have an account I deleted 18 years ago, still can’t make it again.
- amarant 11mo agoCould in theory be because someone else grabbed the account 16 years ago tho, unless I'm missing something?
- tech234a 11mo agoNo Google does not allow creating a new account with a previously-used Gmail address. Each Gmail address can be used at most once.
- krainboltgreene 11mo agoI emailed the address to make sure: It bounce due to not existing.
- zaptheimpaler 11mo agoEven if your google account is deleted, the email address is NOT recycled because it can be used to impersonate people - maybe the previous owner still has physical/digital accounts linked to that old email. As far as I know most services do this - an email address once registered is never released again.
- simulator5g 11mo agoYou can never make another account with that address because Google does not delete things.