Gmail worries

[smtkr]

How can a company own a .com address in the UK only? I thought they had to be registered internationally.

You are right. UK courts will affect the world on this issue. I will be annoyed if I lose my @gmail.com address

[smtkr]

i really have no problems with it, i have an account, but i dont use it, so no real loss... pop3 is the way to go, buy your own domain and get everything u want @yourdomain.com
thats what i do.

Yeah, until some small company you've never heard of sues you for squatting on a domain that remotely resembles some bogus trademark it claims it has the rights to ( see this article about another annoying Euro court case, albeit this one doesn't affect us in the US http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05101307.htm ).

[Ramedge]

i really dont want to loose my @gmail.com address ! googlemail is to long tbh!
i think as i will be purchasing web hosting very soon that i can just create some mail boxes with that. So may not need my gmail any more dispite how good it is

[mhs.internet]

ok I just got my Gmail about a week ago... Smeg.

[Crazy Fool]

How can a company own a .com address in the UK only? I thought they had to be registered internationally.

it's about the name 'Gmail' that the problem comes from, read the bbc link it gives a run down