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A while ago I created a google account (but not a gmail account) using my own domain, to use some google services (not gmail) using [email protected].
The e-mail account itself was hosted elsewhere (namecheap) because I didn't want to pay for Google Workspace, although my namecheap subscription for the email hosting has now expired as I stopped using it.
I now want to get a google workspace account, and I want to sign up using the same address [email protected] as the account admin.
There is no data associated with the account that I care about, and at this point I wish i had never created it!
Is it possible to just sign up to Workspace using [email protected]? If I do this, will my old account just be migrated to a different address like @googleapps.com or something?
I've tried to find an answer to this but couldn't find anything for my exact situation, any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm too worried about messing something up to continue!
If you've been tasked with setting up an existing business with a Google Workspace account for email purposes, how do you do that during sign up?
One of the steps is "How you'll sign in". https://i.imgur.com/FSFaYsO.png
It asks for the email address of someone at the domain you're setting up. What if I don't currently have access to one of their email inboxes (since their email is hosted elsewhere currently). But I do have access to their DNS.
Just curious what is best-practice when creating the initial account for their business. In the past, I recall being able to use my own email address, but may be mistaken, since I don't do it very often. Meanwhile, I've signed up for "Google Cloud Partner Advantage" to likely do it via that method, which is likely the way most companies to this for their clients.