Gmail Sign Up | Gmail Registration for New Accounts

Gmail is one of the best free email service providers available these days.  If you take my personal opinion , you are taking a very good step by switching over from Yahoo to Gmail . Take a simple example : While Gmail provides you services like email forwarding, Yahoo allows it only in its paid version.  There are many other areas as well where Gmail scores over Yahoo.

We will discuss this article in two parts.

1: Gmail Sign Up for users from UK and Germany

2: Gmail Sign Up for people else where in the world.

Users from UK & Germany

Users from UK and Germany often want to Sign Up for gmail.com id instead of googlemail.com id. However because of trademark disputes over Gmail name in UK and Germany, Google has rebranded Gmail.com to Googlemail.com in these countries.

So if a new user wants to sign up for gmail.com id from an IP address determined to be in either UK or Germany, he would be automatically forwarded to googlemail.com instead.

The Trademark Dispute

In Germany Google’s problems were that Daniel Giersch, had a pre-existing email service called “G-mail”, and in the UK, London based Independent International Investment Research’s use of Gmail predate Google’s by 2 years. In January 2007 the EU’s trademark body, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), also turned down Google’s attempt to invalidate Giersch’s claim to the name.

Do you really need to sign up for Gmail.com address?

When you sign up for Googlemail.com or a Gmail.com account, Google actually provides you two email addresses – @googlemail.com and @gmail.com.

That means if your email address in Googlemail is something like david@googlemail.com, all email messages that are sent to david@gmail.com will also be delivered to your own Googlemail account.

How to Sign Up for Gmail.com account instead of Googlemail.com

Google recognizes a user by his IP address. Therefore in order to sign up for Gmail id, we will need to change our IP address. Since proxy websites don’t work with Gmail, we have limited options.

First option is to ask someone living outside UK and Germany to sign up on your behalf. I heard of such a service providing Gmail signup for a dollar sometime back, but I am not sure if it exists now. Other similar option is signing up for Gmail while travelling abroad. You can also ask someone who is travelling to sign up for you.

Second option is to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network). You can choose any VPN service based outside UK and Germany for the purpose. Though most of the VPN services are paid, some of them do offer free trial packages. You can sign up for any of these free trials and get a Gmail account. Among all, US based VPN servers are quite popular and are easily available.

There is no third option but you can try this link and see if works for a Gmail.com sign up

Gmail Sign Up for People Elsewhere in The World.

If you do not live in Germany or UK , signing up for Gmail is a very easy process . Here is how you can sign up for a new Gmail account.

Step 1: Go to Gmail.com or click here

Step 2: Click on Create an account as shown in the image below

Step 3: Fill in your details – First Name , Last Name , Login Name , password , secured question, location and captcha.

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Step 4: Read all the terms and conditions and Click on I accept – Create my Account

In some countries , signing up for a new Gmail account requires  phone verification. If you  belong to one of these countries or see a verification page , follow steps 5 and 6.

Step 5: After you click on Create my Account , you will be taken to the verification page. There are two verification options available to you – Text Message and Voice Call.

A phone can be used to verify up to 5 Gmail accounts . We selected Text Message as  verification option.

Step 6: Enter the Mobile phone number and Click on Send Verification code to Mobile Phone

Step 7: You would receive a text message on the mobile phone from Google . It contains the 6 digit Google verification code. Enter this code and click on verify .

Step 8: We are almost done here. After you successfully verify your account you would be taken to the Gmail introduction page . Click on Show me my account to proceed

Step 9: Congratulations and welcome to your Gmail Account

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