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I'm looking to recover the username from a Google Account that I deleted a couple years ago.
The username is stevenheidel. All I want is the name, don't require any information from the account. This is the username I use for everything, so it'd be great if I could have the @gmail.com address back.
Unfortunately Google has a policy against reissuing deleted email addresses.
It makes sense since they can not verify if the user who wants to register a deleted email address is the original owner of that address or not. If they would allow this a malicious user could pretend to be the original owner by using his old email address.
In fact, when you delete a Gmail account, you can still recover your Gmail username with the Google account you used to create it, else it is lost forever. Indeed, for security purpose, a deleted username is locked to prevent a malicious impersonation or website account theft on other websites linked to the old Gmail account.
