How to create multiple account to an online service using the same email address

Sometime I found myself in the situation where I need to create multiple accounts at the same service, either because it’s free and I want to use it more without hitting the free account limitation or because I want to hide something, but mostly is for a good cause. Well in this case you can always use multiple email addresses to subscribe, but you know it’s hard to check multiple email accounts constantly. This short post is meant to show you how to create multiple accounts for the same online service using a single email address.

First, to be clear, for the next trick to work you need a valid Gmail address. Why is that? Because Gmail is the only webmail service which allows you to spell your email address by using a point between any of the letters and numbers (any other characters are not allowed in a gmail username) that make up your account name. What that means? johndoe@gmail.com equals john.doe@gmail.com, or jo.hn.doe@gmail.com or whatever combination you like. Any email sent to any of those aliases (I can’t find another better name for them) will arrive in your initial johndoe@gmail.com Inbox.

Simple, isn’t it?