How do I create an account?

brum · 08-06-2006, 11:18 PM

font size="3"span style="font-family: Tahoma;"I deleted my newly created account by accident and I was sent a new invite to recreate it, but it is saying that the name is no longer available. The name is a very unlikely name so I wouldn't think anyone would have created the account in the time it took me to try the second time.brbr style="font-family: Tahoma;"/spanspan style="font-family: Tahoma;"Does Gmail avail the deleted account names after they have been deleted after a certain time or at all?/spanbr style="font-family: Tahoma;"span style="font-family: Tahoma;"please help./span/fontbr

mondine · 08-06-2006, 11:28 PM

I don't think that anyone's found a definitive answer to that one yet.
But it's at least a matter of months, or more.

You may have to settle for a variation of it, by adding a period, hyphen, underline, etc.

brum · 08-06-2006, 11:50 PM

thanks, if anyone else knows anything please let me know..

andrew247 · 08-07-2006, 03:17 AM

I think there's a period of nine months between deleting and it being available again.

peterk · 08-07-2006, 03:31 AM

Yeah I heared that nine months thing aswell - though can't remember where from.
E-mail google (from another email account) and tell them about the problem and see if they can sort something out.

IamTheKing9 · 08-08-2006, 02:58 AM

I've heard about the nine months thing as well, and thought that I'd better tell you where I read about it.
The thing is that Google deletes/deactivates an account after it hasn't been used for nine consecutive months.
I don't know the answer to brum's question, though. The nine months thing is talked about in Gmail's Help Centre here, by the way.

brum · 08-09-2006, 07:50 PM

p class="MsoNormal"span class="postbody"span lang="EN-AU"Thank you all muchely,this is much more than I knew origninally. Unfortunately Google wont respond tomy email but that’s understandable and the Help Centre is not conclusive:/span/spanspan lang="EN-AU"brbrspan class="postbody""If you don't log in to your account for an extendedperiod of time, we'll mark it as dormant. After nine consecutive months ofinactivity, Google bspan style="color: red;"may/span/b delete the accountand all messages within that account.br/spanspan class="postbody"If your dormant account is deleted, bspan style="color: red;"we can't guarantee /span/bthat your username will be madeavailable again. Make sure to log in to Gmail regularly!"/spanbrbrspan class="postbody"Thanks again for this reference and all your info, ifanyone hears anything else, please let me know./span/span/pp class="MsoNormal"EDIT: Formatting mangled itself...brspan lang="EN-AU"span class="postbody"/span/span/p

TheBear · 08-11-2006, 12:08 PM

I am not sure of the nine months either. But I can confirm 100% that names are deleted.

I sent an invite to a friend of mine last year, he hardly used his account and one day he decided to but it was gone (duh... lol) I then sent him another e-mail and he set up the same user name/e-mail address as the original. The trouble is, I can't remember the amount of time in between the original was set up and the second.

Good luck

brum · 08-12-2006, 05:21 AM

Thank TheBear, if anyone has anything to add...

area51 · 08-23-2006, 12:30 AM

Can anybody tell me what/how to get a gmail acct? All my coworkers have one but we rarely see each other during the day and it would make it easier if we all had the same thing going.

08-06-2006, 11:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
brum Noogle Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	How do I create an account? font size="3"span style="font-family: Tahoma;"I deleted my newly created account by accident and I was sent a new invite to recreate it, but it is saying that the name is no longer available. The name is a very unlikely name so I wouldn't think anyone would have created the account in the time it took me to try the second time.brbr style="font-family: Tahoma;"/spanspan style="font-family: Tahoma;"Does Gmail avail the deleted account names after they have been deleted after a certain time or at all?/spanbr style="font-family: Tahoma;"span style="font-family: Tahoma;"please help./span/fontbr

08-06-2006, 11:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
mondine Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC. Posts: 4,002 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	I don't think that anyone's found a definitive answer to that one yet. But it's at least a matter of months, or more. You may have to settle for a variation of it, by adding a period, hyphen, underline, etc. __________________

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08-06-2006, 11:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
brum Noogle Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	thanks, if anyone else knows anything please let me know..

08-07-2006, 03:17 AM	#4 (permalink)
andrew247 Google Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: c:\GoogleCommunity Posts: 3,420 Thanks: 3 Thanked 18 Times in 17 Posts	I think there's a period of nine months between deleting and it being available again.

08-07-2006, 03:31 AM	#5 (permalink)
peterk Googler Join Date: May 2006 Location: Scotland Posts: 80 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Yeah I heared that nine months thing aswell - though can't remember where from. E-mail google (from another email account) and tell them about the problem and see if they can sort something out.

08-08-2006, 02:58 AM	#6 (permalink)
IamTheKing9 Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Mumbai, India Posts: 3,000 Thanks: 3 Thanked 12 Times in 11 Posts	I've heard about the nine months thing as well, and thought that I'd better tell you where I read about it. The thing is that Google deletes/deactivates an account after it hasn't been used for nine consecutive months. I don't know the answer to brum's question, though. The nine months thing is talked about in Gmail's Help Centre here, by the way.

08-09-2006, 07:50 PM	#7 (permalink)
brum Noogle Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	p class="MsoNormal"span class="postbody"span lang="EN-AU"Thank you all muchely,this is much more than I knew origninally. Unfortunately Google wont respond tomy email but that’s understandable and the Help Centre is not conclusive:/span/spanspan lang="EN-AU"brbrspan class="postbody""If you don't log in to your account for an extendedperiod of time, we'll mark it as dormant. After nine consecutive months ofinactivity, Google bspan style="color: red;"may/span/b delete the accountand all messages within that account.br/spanspan class="postbody"If your dormant account is deleted, bspan style="color: red;"we can't guarantee /span/bthat your username will be madeavailable again. Make sure to log in to Gmail regularly!"/spanbrbrspan class="postbody"Thanks again for this reference and all your info, ifanyone hears anything else, please let me know./span/span/pp class="MsoNormal"EDIT: Formatting mangled itself...brspan lang="EN-AU"span class="postbody"/span/span/p

08-11-2006, 12:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
TheBear Junior Googler Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK Posts: 40 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I am not sure of the nine months either. But I can confirm 100% that names are deleted. I sent an invite to a friend of mine last year, he hardly used his account and one day he decided to but it was gone (duh... lol) I then sent him another e-mail and he set up the same user name/e-mail address as the original. The trouble is, I can't remember the amount of time in between the original was set up and the second. Good luck

08-12-2006, 05:21 AM	#9 (permalink)
brum Noogle Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thank TheBear, if anyone has anything to add...

08-23-2006, 12:30 AM	#10 (permalink)
area51 Noogle Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Can anybody tell me what/how to get a gmail acct? All my coworkers have one but we rarely see each other during the day and it would make it easier if we all had the same thing going.

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