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There is a Gmail community at Orkut with currently 899 members. Over there I found a way to check if a Gmail account username was in use or if it was available.
You simply went to a URL and it would tell you.
The URL was: https://www.google.com/accounts/CheckAvailability?Email=YourUserName
You simply replace "YourUserName" with the name you want to check the availability of.
A couple of days ago this URL was no longer reporting back the availability of the Gmail usernames. There is belief that Google added an "encryption key to the checker now so people can't take advantage of their system."
Comments:
tom
04/13/2005 06:39 pm
HOW CAN I FIND A GMAIL USERNAME OR PROFILE?
tom
08/09/2007 10:44 pm
I want to find the Gmail address of one of my friend, I know his complete personal information (name,family, etc)
soori
08/21/2008 06:16 am
i forget my username how to find it
Yoon
02/07/2009 05:57 am
I want to find the Gmail address of one of my friend, I know his complete personal information (name,family, etc)
hari
03/20/2009 11:37 am
forgot password
SuperDave
09/29/2009 02:47 pm
The Gmail names selection process appears to be tainted. It will tell you that a name is not available when it is not true. You can get it to contradict itself by pretending you lost the password and insert the name. It will then say that name does not exit !
akanksha
10/21/2009 08:37 am
how can I find a person email address by name in gmail ... its urgent
Daniel Gardner
11/18/2009 07:02 pm
An excellent tip, thanks! And btw - it still works like a charm.
white
12/05/2009 05:48 am
i wanna find the email address of phyopapakyaw
himanshu
02/01/2010 07:08 pm
how can find frend for g maill
findgmailhacker
03/09/2010 11:27 pm
HELP MY GMAIL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED REPORT THESE MALICIOUS BASTARDS PLEASE azskyline311@gmail.com (used to be our email and now the hackers have broke in. Please help us stop them...
taolo
08/06/2010 11:50 pm
i forget my user name
virendra
08/07/2010 06:00 am
I want to find the Gmail address of one of my friend, I know his name only.
mahesh
09/01/2010 04:36 am
how can i find the email address of a person with his name?
JB
10/03/2010 09:50 pm
I accidentally put an email in my facebook "contact" email. Then I forgot my blankety blank password, now I can't get in to change my page or anything what can I do?
Alexsparks16
06/11/2011 07:19 pm
uh this doesnt seem to be working......
Thanakrid Teapatarapanya
11/20/2011 01:57 pm
cannot to checking...
LifeOfCoding
08/30/2012 03:18 pm
Thanks for this, it helped me out.
Omni Comment
12/25/2012 08:34 pm
Just want to say that this still works.