The Official Gmail Blog post on this issue. If you cast your minds back, Google had originally rolled out the @gmail.com address across the world, and then someone (International Investment Research) came in and laid claim to Gmail as the name of their own webmail system. Since Google didn't agree to pay $50m for the rights, they created @googlemail.com instead. What many people didn't realise however was that although UK users got automatically assigned @googlemail.com they were actually getting @gmail.com at the same time. This is why Google can now make the switch - what they're actually simply doing is changing the default address people get given - because users already have the @gmail.com address it's easy to do this.
You can also create a huge number of email addresses (not accounts) with one very simple option - which I discussed in detail in my 'Unlimited Gmail accounts' post a while back.
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You can also create a huge number of email addresses (not accounts) with one very simple option - which I discussed in detail in my 'Unlimited Gmail accounts' post a while back.
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