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  • 10-04-2006 11:17pm
    #1
    Aziraphale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭


    Is Google handing out @googlemail.com addresses for people in Ireland? Their FAQ says UK, but I just tried to create a new account and it offered me googlemail, yuck. Is this something to do with me, or are they just really bad at geography?


Comments

  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Utv your ISP, by any chance?


  • #3
    Aziraphale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭Aziraphale


    Nope, but last time I did an IP locate it told me Belfast. Is IP all google goes by for location?


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Yes. Google don't ask for location information for their profiles.


  • #5
    quaidox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭quaidox


    Aziraphale wrote:
    Nope, but last time I did an IP locate it told me Belfast. Is IP all google goes by for location?
    how do you do an IP locate??


  • #6
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    quaidox wrote:
    how do you do an IP locate??
    Something like this. Of course, the IP is going to be mapped to where your ISP connects you to the outside world, so don't expect it to pin point your house or anything. For example, mine says Limerick.


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  • #7
    quaidox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭quaidox


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Something like this. Of course, the IP is going to be mapped to where your ISP connects you to the outside world, so don't expect it to pin point your house or anything. For example, mine says Limerick.
    thanks aidan!


  • #8
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Mine says Waterford which it is.


  • #9
    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    mine says space


  • #10
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,991 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • #11
    Aziraphale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭Aziraphale


    Yes. Google don't ask for location information for their profiles.
    They do now. I got a list of countries, selected Ireland, and still ended up being @googlemail.
    Where did you see this?
    http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html


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  • #12
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭SeanW


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Something like this. Of course, the IP is going to be mapped to where your ISP connects you to the outside world, so don't expect it to pin point your house or anything. For example, mine says Limerick.

    Mine says Cork. WTF?

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  • #13
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,227 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    SeanW wrote:
    Mine says Cork. WTF?
    Same here, bt bb plus.


  • #14
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    It doesn't matter anyway, sending mail to username@gmail.com will still deliver it to your mailbox.


  • #15
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    My IP location says Dublin. I'd say that is reasonable enough seen as I am a 45 minute drive to Dublin :)


  • #16
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    so does the company that owns "gmail" in the UK also own copyright over Ireland, or are Google just being a bit lazy?


  • #17
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    No, its just people whose IP addresses map to UK locations geographically. Google thinks you're in the UK so presents you with Googlemail.


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