What's the format of internal emails?
IE

NAMEgoogle.com

or

NAMEgoogle-inc.com

etc

The internal format is any of the following, at least from what I've seen:

johndoegoogle.com
jdoegoogle.com
johndgoogle.com
johngoogle.com

(More variants, e.g. jdgoogle.com, may exist. Dots may be optional as in Gmail.)

I suppose those are served on a first-come basis, meaning if you're lucky to be the first "John" at Google you can pick "johngoogle.com" but if you're the second, you will have to go with a variant.

(Also, perhaps e.g. johndoe*gmail*.com would also be reserved for that person working at Google, but I would have to check this again to verify... and wasn't it the case that most first names @gmail.com were reserved for that reason, i.e. you weren't able to sign up for them when Gmail went publicly live in 2004?)

thanks!

Philipp, Your examples are pretty much spot on to what different variations there are inside the company.

And there was rgoogle.com

See also: blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-0 ...

Who did you want to contact Brinke?

<< Also, perhaps e.g. johndoe*gmail*.com would also be reserved for that person working at Google, but I would have to check this again to verify... >>

I can confirm that's NOT the case – i.e. johndoegoogle.com is not necessarily the same as johndoegmail.com.

Also, some Gmail addresses DO have fewer than 6 characters before the domain.

I was writing the higher-ups about Gmail. I want my old address back. No bounces...but no responses either.

Yeah, you can bet larry and sergey are taken!