Branding and marketing. It makes it crystal clear how popular it is. And gmail.com isn't "running low" on addresses, I don't even know what that means. Whateve

Branding and marketing. It makes it crystal clear how popular it is. And gmail.com isn't "running low" on addresses, I don't even know what that means. Whatever TLD you'd prefer, just append it to your username instead. Exact same amount of uniqueness.