warning -gmail and domain accounts

seeker · Jun 19, 2005

just a heads up for anyone using gmail for their whois

Gmail decided that 1 of my addressesw is now 'reserved', and I no longer have access to it.
no spam, no problems, just a keywoard that is 'reserved' even though I have been using it for over 9 months!

imagine the mess had I forgotten the password to my registrar(s) and had no access to my domains!!!

lilian · Jun 19, 2005

Have you wrote to them to complain about it?

Anthony Ng · Jun 19, 2005

Sorry to hear that, but you should have NEVER used a free e-mail account for critically important mission, not to say that Gmail is still under beta. I only use Gmail for backup and/or archiving.

seeker · Jun 19, 2005

I usually do not use gmail or any other free service.
but in the last month did so for specific reasons.
I worte them and no reply other than the standard reply and that the address is now reserved(!!!)
I guess because the address itself might confuse someone that it is owned by gmail itself (which is kind of dumb). it was a good one too, sort of like webmaster@gmail as far as keyword.
anyhow, I only did it to serve a purpose, but i wont be doing it again.

VisualDigits · Jun 19, 2005

oh, so they're taking your account away, I think they have their reasons.

mike031 · Jun 19, 2005

gotta love google :blush:

seeker · Jun 19, 2005

the reason is that the address is now reserved.
I have been using it precisely for a year (since it began) not 9 months like i said.
no spam, nothing.
I am sure this will happen to other major keyword addresses at gmail...

romow · Jun 19, 2005

that's really bad.
they don't mention it in their program policy... do they?

seeker · Jun 19, 2005

well, it says it is in beta stage. it does say somewhere that no guarantee is made etc...

stevey · Jun 19, 2005

yeah, always gotta be carefull, never use free email for important things such as registering domains etc, i use gmail to backup email :santa:

Mr. Deleted · Jun 19, 2005

I use joe@ Slabaugh.org to forword to my gmail account, and then use pop access to download it, but if they toke my account it would hurt. It would however be better then if I had slabaugh@ gmail.com in the whois... I can then just change the forword to another address.

Dimva · Jun 19, 2005

Thanks for the heads up!
Dimva

Zion · Jun 19, 2005

%^)_*%

What was the exact email? I may be screwed......

seeker · Jun 19, 2005

why would you be screwed?
it says the address is now reserved.
first, you cant log in, then you ask support, and you get that email.
you want my exact email???

Mr. Deleted · Jun 19, 2005

seeker said:
why would you be screwed?
it says the address is now reserved.
first, you cant log in, then you ask support, and you get that email.
you want my exact email???

I think what he is saying, what was the "keyword" that they reserved, so he can change his own

Zion · Jun 19, 2005

seeker said:
why would you be screwed?
it says the address is now reserved.
first, you cant log in, then you ask support, and you get that email.
you want my exact email???

Yeah, cause it's not yours anymore, so why would it matter?

I want to see if mine could be disabled. I have like 500 emails / day coming into my gmail account, and I use it for everything

seeker · Jun 19, 2005

ok, but I cant give out the word as it has been my backup email for a year.

screwed:
admin
administrator
webmaster
owner
domain
domains
secure
security

...
get the 'drift'?
I hope this helps