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by mcpherrinm 3000 days ago
Multiple accounts with the same email haven't been available for many, many years. I'm not sure exactly when registration for these was disabled, but it was 10+ years ago. Possibly 15-20 years ago.

I think it was a valid design decision at the time, before accounts on websites were widespread and a family might only have a single email address from their ISP.

The rise of free webmail accounts from Hotmail etc changed that, of course. And now we have a shared understanding of how accounts on websites should work. Neither of those were true in 1994.
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Pxtl 3000 days ago
Good to know. I had accidentally created multiple accounts for myself around '05 or so and was really surprised by it. Iirc back then they also required separate accounts per-country, but I could be wrong about that.
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uiri 3000 days ago
I don't think they require separate accounts per-country, but my only experience is with .com and .ca. They might do the accounts on a per-realm basis (North America, Far East, Europe, etc.) rather than strictly per-country.
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tough_luck 3000 days ago
I have same account (same mail) with amazon that works across their .com, .in, .fr., .co.uk
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stordoff 3000 days ago
They still do AFAICT (I had to sign up for a Japanese account relatively recently).
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AnssiH 3000 days ago
Amazon Japan and Amazon China are the only ones that have separate accounts from the rest of the Amazon sites.
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scrame 3000 days ago
Naw, I left about 10 years ago and out was still there, and still had co-workers at a different job asking me about it a couple years later, because they got bit by it.

The justification I heard was that someone would have a personal and business (or library) account to the same email, but it definitely persisted longer than you think.

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mcpherrinm 2999 days ago
Well, they were enabled but you couldn't create new ones when I joined 7 years ago. I was under the impression they'd long since been retired at that point. Given the turnover there, ancient lore could have only been a year or two before that.

I had to jump through some hoops to get one of the accounts to test something I worked on with them.

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