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Want some YMail or RocketMail accounts?

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.

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    14 Responses to “Want some YMail or RocketMail accounts?”


    1. Gravatar Icon katexter replied on Jun 24th, 2008 at 8:53 am (1)

      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.

    2. Gravatar Icon Did You Know? replied on Jun 24th, 2008 at 10:07 am (2)

      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
      hehe

    3. Gravatar Icon joeyboy replied on Jun 24th, 2008 at 11:44 am (3)

      i got my ymail email account last week. bad thing the nick i wanted was already registered with rocketmail :)

    4. Gravatar Icon Yoru replied on Jun 24th, 2008 at 12:50 pm (4)

      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.

    5. Gravatar Icon jhay replied on Jun 24th, 2008 at 1:32 pm (5)

      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.

    6. Gravatar Icon Kenneth replied on Jun 24th, 2008 at 10:07 pm (6)

      I already signed-up for mine. :-)

    7. Gravatar Icon Animohosting.com replied on Jun 25th, 2008 at 6:27 pm (7)

      ymail looks like gmail

    8. Gravatar Icon karla replied on Jun 26th, 2008 at 10:11 am (8)

      interesting. will sign up for ymail :D

    9. Gravatar Icon vinz replied on Jun 28th, 2008 at 5:48 pm (9)

      can i have that one rocketmail..

      thx

    10. Gravatar Icon akeii replied on Jul 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am (10)

      ymail? a gmail rip-off? lol.
      @yahoo.com vs. @ymail.com, maybe quite confusing.

    11. Gravatar Icon Marga replied on Jul 4th, 2008 at 4:54 pm (11)

      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

    12. Gravatar Icon pulak replied on Jul 26th, 2008 at 2:16 pm (12)

      i want to create an account at ymail.com

    13. Gravatar Icon vivia4love replied on Sep 10th, 2008 at 9:27 am (13)

      i love that

    14. Gravatar Icon jilly_odhiambo replied on Sep 15th, 2008 at 6:25 pm (14)

      hi i love it

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