Yahoo adds 2 new domains for email
Starting Thursday, Yahoo will allow its customers to create e-mail accounts using the ymail and rocketmail domain names. With 266 million active users, it’s pretty tough for newbies to get the personalized Yahoo! Mail account name of their choice. Yahoo just made it easier, however, by adding the possibility of using the ymail and rocketmail domain names. Longtime Internet denizens will recognize the latter as the original e-mail domain used by the company Four11, which Yahoo acquired in 1997. And ymail will be familiar to users of the company’s mobile service, Yahoo! Mobile, as that’s what appears on the login screen.
Accounts created with the new domain names will use the same Yahoo! Mail interfaces and get unlimited storage at no charge. Localized country versions of the domain will also be available. The ID’s will also work for signing in to other Yahoo sites and services, such as Flickr, and Yahoo! Messenger. As part of the launch, Yahoo will auction off special e-mail addresses, the proceeds of which will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Ocean Conservancy, The Point Foundation, Right to Play and World Wildlife Fund. The auction will run from today until June 30, and can be found at ebay.com/ymail.
Source: AP, PC Mag
Comments(13)
better hurry to get my email !
Holy crap, I vaguely remember rocketmail….
Thankx for this info.
Bt i find nothing. No new domain available in sign up page. i tried to visit ymail.com its just like past. and even that ebay page does not exists.
hey asif,
got the same problem.
i tried yahoo uk, the you have the option
but when u choose create, it switches to yahoo.co.uk and says your name is not available….
i really like to have my firstname @ymail
lol, yeah i remember rocketmail too. there were so many free mails at one time…
I still have my rocketmail. Part of yahoo’s acquisition terms were that we could keep our email accounts back in ‘96/97.
Rocketmail was one of the first free webmail’s, if not the first.
I have no idea why you even decided this was newsworthy in general, let alone appropriate to post on RLSLog…
ymail when you can gmail?
@6 I thought I was alone. I still have my Rocketmail too.
how do you get @ymail.com .. i tried signing up but the only option it gave me was @yahoo.com
hi Pegasus, bugge® off then.
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Rocketmail was competing with Hotmail at the time (even before hotmail was bought out by MS)
You can say, rocketmail was the pioneer of FREE web-based e-mail
Way to bring the domain back 11 years later!