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GMail by any other name…

Due to a copyright dispute, GMail is now GoogleMail, in the UK at least. No more gmail.com addresses are to be issued, with the rather less sexy googlemail.com domain replacing them. Otherwise, the service remains exactly the same. But those ‘gmail.com’ early adopters get to look very posh all of a sudden. Hurrah!

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