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When I just tried to go to Gmail.com I was blocked and got the following error message:

We can’t provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we’re called Google Mail here instead.

If you’re traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.

Oh, and we’d like to link the URL above, but we’re not allowed to do that either. Bummer.

For general information about Google, please visit www.google.com or www.google.de.

Now, I knew Google hasn’t been allowed to promote its email service under the Gmail name in Germany due to trademark issues, but it had always been possible to access my Gmail account via Gmail.com. Unfortunately, as it seems, Google is now blocking German users from using this domain name so that they will have no choice other than to use the longer, bulky URL above. Alternatively, one can also go to GoogleMail.com, but this is still not as nice as Gmail.com, in my opinion.

The Gmail.com forward is still working for incoming emails, which is good, and I hope Google will continue to offer this @gmail.com to @googlemail.com catch-all function for German users. Otherwise it might result in emails being sent to wrong recipients or not being delivered at all.