Interesting gmail login name response

[Analog]

After asking for 'anandtech' for a username, it says 'raghunath chatterjee' is not available..

Is that the guys name who took it? Interesting....



Desired Login Name: Anandtech@gmail.com
Examples: JSmith, John.Smith


RChatterjee is not available, but the following usernames are:
raghunath.chatterjee
raghunathc
raghunathster
chatterjeester

 

[bleeb]

I'd be wary about having critical emails being sent to and from using Gmail... remember it's still in Beta.

 

[Pepsi90919]

"Beta"

 

[nickdakick]

Server Error

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

for 1/2 hour now, well it's beta.

 

[Beattie]

Who knows. Could just be broken.

 

[Argo]

it's a bug in gmail. I was trying to register argo and it said something about "Some OTher Strange Name" is not available. I tried again and it worked.

 

[dabuddha]

I noticed that too. Mine was a Patel that came back.

 

[simms]

Me too. I tried doing my name, then it says SdicneIDhcn is not available. Please try again later.

 

[PatboyX]

yeah, tells me to cross my fingers and try again

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: nickdakick
Server Error

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

for 1/2 hour now, well it's beta.

I got that with mine for a full day, finally wrote gmail support and they said that my user name/account never existed. Complete B.S.

I got another invite and tried to use my same user name Gmail told me they had no record of and when I tried it said I couldn't use that user name because it was already taken.

Oh, well its beta and free.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Man, it's too bad we don't have a FAWKING GIANT GMAIL THREAD already stickied to the top of Off Topic or anything...

Lets make more gmail threads! Yay! First one to make 100gmail threads and bump them all so that they're all on the first page WINS!

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: Argo
it's a bug in gmail. I was trying to register argo and it said something about "Some OTher Strange Name" is not available. I tried again and it worked.

You can't register a name that is less than 6 characters long.