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 $500PHP 29,343INR 42,375EUR 476CNY 3,639/year to upgrade it to 400GB) — all they need now are a few more nice email names.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

20 Comments

katexter says:

16 years ago

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.
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Did You Know? says:

16 years ago

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
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joeyboy says:

16 years ago

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

16 years ago

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.
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jhay says:

16 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.
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Kenneth says:

16 years ago

I already signed-up for mine. :-)
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Animohosting.com says:

16 years ago

ymail looks like gmail
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karla says:

16 years ago

interesting. will sign up for ymail :D
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vinz says:

16 years ago

can i have that one rocketmail..

thx
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akeii says:

16 years ago

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

16 years ago

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
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pulak says:

16 years ago

i want to create an account at ymail.com
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vivia4love says:

16 years ago

i love that
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jilly_odhiambo says:

16 years ago

hi i love it
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Malou Escasa says:

16 years ago

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.
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Sagarchavan says:

16 years ago

Hi i am sagar. I am create my account
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marv says:

14 years ago

pachinggo
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sohail khan says:

14 years ago

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13 years ago

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Followme says:

12 years ago

I have opened an account under the captioned email id and how am I have to create an icon enabling me to open the email account.
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