Disposable email database
Is gmail.com a disposable email?
Quick answer
gmail.com is operated by Gmail, a legitimate free email provider. Do not block — these users are real and represent a large fraction of healthy B2C and small-business signups.
About Gmail
Gmail is Google's free webmail service. It is a legitimate, long-lived provider — not a disposable service — used by over 1.8 billion people worldwide for personal and business email.
Operating since 2004.
What it’s typically used for
General personal email. Many small businesses also operate on Gmail addresses before adopting custom domains.
Should you block gmail.com in your signup form?
Do NOT block @gmail.com signups. Gmail is one of the largest sources of legitimate user signups. The right move is to score Gmail signups normally while watching for the specific abuse patterns it enables (alias tricks like dot-variations and `+` suffixes).
What you should do for Gmail signups: score them through your normal verification flow, watch for the same alias tricks (dot-variations,+tags), and keep the same disposable + IP checks running.
How to detect gmail.com in code
You don’t need to maintain a hand-rolled list. Vouchley returns a disposable flag (and the rest of the signup score) on every check:
curl -X POST https://api.vouchley.getrevlio.com/v1/verify \
-H "Authorization: Bearer vch_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"email": "anyone@gmail.com",
"ip_address": "203.0.113.10"
}'
# Response:
# {
# "score": 78,
# "recommendation": "approve",
# "email": { "disposable": false, "valid": true },
# ...
# }Related services
Block disposable signups in one API call.
Vouchley keeps the disposable list current — including alias domains and new providers — so you never have to maintain it yourself.