

Internet users may sign up to ProtonVPN's free or paid plans to protect Internet traffic. If you would like to merge one account into another account, please see Combining accounts.VPN services have risen in popularity in recent time, as they provide one of the best options when it comes to protecting Internet traffic against the snooping of third parties, such as your Internet Service Provider or governments. For more information, see Aliases and Addresses in Proton Mail (new window). Otherwise, you can also create a new account at /pricing (new window) or add additional usernames to your account. If you would like us make these changes, please contact our support team (new window). Usernames and email addresses are not case-sensitive, so these changes are purely cosmetic. We can change capital letters to sentence case and vice versa Once a user takes a specific username, none of these variations can be used for a different account.Ģ.

That is, username is the same as user_name and user.name, etc. This is possible because these characters are treated as transparent by our service. Changing your username would change the key that was used to send and receive all the emails in your inbox.ġ. This key allows you to send and receive emails using Proton Mail’s encryption. When you created your account, you also created a key that was matched to your username. Your username is the beginning part of the main email address that you created to sign up for your Proton Mail account ( Unfortunately, we cannot change the main login username on your account.
