Google Mail?
I was in Berlin over the weekend and this is what you get when you type www.gmail.com in a web browser:
We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we're called Google Mail here instead.
If you're traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.
Oh, and we'd like to link the URL above, but we're not allowed to do that either. Bummer.
I don't know the reason behind this, but I'm guessing that google wasn't allowed to do this as germans would think that the 'G' in Gmail stands for Germany...some kind of nationalistic email program. But then again, the word Germany is Deutschland in german and www.dmail.com is not blocked...hmmm.
We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we're called Google Mail here instead.
If you're traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.
Oh, and we'd like to link the URL above, but we're not allowed to do that either. Bummer.
I don't know the reason behind this, but I'm guessing that google wasn't allowed to do this as germans would think that the 'G' in Gmail stands for Germany...some kind of nationalistic email program. But then again, the word Germany is Deutschland in german and www.dmail.com is not blocked...hmmm.
posted by Bartek Kunowski @ 4:21 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:55 PM,
Unknown said…
from wikipedia: The German naming issue is due to a trademark dispute between Google and Daniel Giersch. Daniel Giersch owns a company called "G-mail" which provides the service of printing out emails from senders and sending the print-out via postal mail to the intended recipients. On 30 January 2007, Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market ruled in favor of Giersch
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