Two new email domains went up for public use by Yahoo!Mail users a couple days ago – YMail.com and RocketMail.com. Okay, so RocketMail isn’t new. It’s an old email service that’s just been raised from the dead. Main reason?
All the cool email names are already taken. With over 266 million Yahoo! Mail accounts (@yahoo.com emails are 3 times more than @gmail.com), the 2 new domains (@ymail.com & @rocketmail.com) will surely ease up on the available nicely-named email addresses.
E-mail accounts under the ymail and rocketmail domains will offer all the same features as the original Yahoo domain — unlimited amount of storage capacity, ability to instant message from within the inbox as well as spam and virus protection.
On the other hand, RocketMail has been in existence since mid 90′s and was bought by Yahoo! in 1997 (I have an old account from 1998 I very rarely used) until Yahoo snatched it up. Took them a decade to merge the two, eh?
One big question — will this help keep people to stay with Yahoo Mail? They already got unlimited storage (compared to GMail’s close to 7GB, unless you fork up $500/year to upgrade it to 400GB) — all they need now are a few more nice email names.
Yahoo mail is such a nightmare to send mail to! I had to earn SPF, domain keys and so much more, and still, Yahoo puts my mailing lists’ emails in spam folders.
It is a disservice to users that legitimate emails are classified this way when spam clearly gets into the inbox. Gmail doesn’t have these problems.
parang gusto ko sanang gumawa ng account na @ymail . . .pero baka macinfuse ang iba na hindi alam about sa @ymail ..baka kung econtact nila ako, papalitan nila ng @yahoo.com
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i got my ymail email account last week. bad thing the nick i wanted was already registered with rocketmail
Hm.. nope. Unless Yahoo changes their algorithm in classifying what’s spam and what’s not. I get dozens of spam emails everyday and that’s what made me switch to Gmail some three or four years ago.
Looks cool, but I’m a happy and loyal Gmail user.
Didyouknow? is right, it’s relatively unheard of nowadays and people will confuse it with yahoo mail especially now in our SMS-language-using society.
Twitter: kmendoza
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I already signed-up for mine.
ymail looks like gmail
interesting. will sign up for ymail
can i have that one rocketmail..
thx
ymail? a gmail rip-off? lol.
@yahoo.com vs. @ymail.com, maybe quite confusing.
I have a rocketmail address from my college days and it’s still my main email account. It’s been running on the yahoo system i never had to change my email address
i want to create an account at ymail.com
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Twitter: mescasa
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My Rocketmail e-mail address has been in existence since 1996, I think. However, I only use the ID for my Yahoo! Messenger account.
I use Gmail for e-mail. I also like their Google Apps.
Hi i am sagar. I am create my account
Twitter: pachinggo
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