Your free to use this ‘dot’ anywhere in your gmail ID. For using this ‘dot’ in your own gmail address, you don’t have to register or do some changes in settings.
So hereafter, if someone share you their gmail address with ‘dots’ in it, don’t worry about recording those ‘dots’. This ‘dot’ gives some sense to your gmail address.
or one your prefer? Of course both are represents a single gmail account, but the former one is more readable than the later. The only reason behind this is to make your gmail id more human friendly.
is as same as or or Put the ‘dot’ wherever you want in your gmail ID (before the character), it will still be the same gmail ID regardless of the position of this ‘dot’. Gmail server just strips the ‘dot’ in any given gmail username or ID. Can you believe this ‘dot’ in your gmail id (gmail address) is really a meaningless one? Whaaat…? Dot or period or (.) whatever you call it, for the sake of writing this article I am gonna refer it as ‘dot’.