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jspash | 3 months ago

I have lastname.firstname@gmail.com because first.last was already taken.

Just curious, do gmail accounts ever expire? Will I ever get the chance to snag the other one? Or does it forever belong to my nemesis and life-long enemy?

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zaptheimpaler|3 months ago

Even if your google account is deleted, the email address is NOT recycled because it can be used to impersonate people - maybe the previous owner still has physical/digital accounts linked to that old email. As far as I know most services do this - an email address once registered is never released again.

eth0up|3 months ago

Unused they have a half-life. Google Voice numbers much more aggressively so.

It's somewhere in the document.

roywiggins|3 months ago

After two years of inactivity:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

krainboltgreene|3 months ago

This answer is not actually correct. I have an account I deleted 18 years ago, still can’t make it again.

simulator5g|3 months ago

You can never make another account with that address because Google does not delete things.