Have you tried sending a message to it? If it truly doesn't exist, there will be a bounce, and then you'll know that GMail is just preventing that username because they don't like a word in it. If it doesn't bounce, it's possible someone has the account, just has a period in a place you don't consider logical.
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Alvin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanx, Zach. > > > > Logging in the periods aren't significant, but password recovery they > are. > > A little inconsistent, but I guess even Google isn't perfect. :-/ > > I'm trying to get/recover a Google account with my business name, and > there is a logical place for a period, which I didn't try. I did now with > the same results. Now what? > > > On Monday, July 8, 2013 3:54:52 PM UTC-5, Zack Tennant wrote: > >> If your proposed username has a reserved word in it, like admin, or root, >> I believe you'd get the same results. Alternatively, if the account >> exists, but with periods in different locations, you;d get that type of >> result. Logging in the periods aren't significant, but password recovery >> they are. >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Alvin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, I want another Google Account. I go the the "Create Account" page, >>> enter the name I want, and it tells me the account already exists. Okay, I >>> could have forgotten this. So I click the "Cannot login link," select the >>> "I don't know my password" radio button, enter the above Google Account, >>> and I get "No such account exists" message. Now what? Thank you for any >>> help. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Gmail-Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to gmail-users...@**googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> >>> Visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/gmail-users<http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users> >>> . >>> For more options, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>> . >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
