Gadgetopia

Google bans Gmail swaps and sales: Domain squatting is so 2001. The new trend, it appears, is Gmail account squatting. If you managed to get a good Gmail name, there’s apparently a black market for selling them.

Google changed its Gmail membership policy this week to prevent people from profiting on the sale of popular e-mail names.

The changes are designed to deter people from creating multiple e-mail accounts with the purpose of reselling or trading…