[jspash]

I have [e-mail] because first.last was already taken.

Just curious, do gmail accounts ever expire? Will I ever get the chance to snag the other one? Or does it forever belong to my nemesis and life-long enemy?

[zaptheimpaler]

Even if your google account is deleted, the email address is NOT recycled because it can be used to impersonate people - maybe the previous owner still has physical/digital accounts linked to that old email. As far as I know most services do this - an email address once registered is never released again.

[eth0up]

Unused they have a half-life. Google Voice numbers much more aggressively so.

It's somewhere in the document.

[roywiggins]

After two years of inactivity:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

[krainboltgreene]

This answer is not actually correct. I have an account I deleted 18 years ago, still can’t make it again.

[amarant]

Could in theory be because someone else grabbed the account 16 years ago tho, unless I'm missing something?

[tech234a]

No Google does not allow creating a new account with a previously-used Gmail address. Each Gmail address can be used at most once.

[krainboltgreene]

I emailed the address to make sure: It bounce due to not existing.

[simulator5g]

You can never make another account with that address because Google does not delete things.