Yahoo Launches Ymail and Rocketmail

joe · #1 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 11:15 AM

Today Yahoo! will launch (and in one case re-launch) two new domains for you to register a Yahoo! e-mail account with. The full story can be found at an Associated Press article here, what follows below is a quote from that article.

Quote:

Yahoo Inc. is offering free e-mail accounts under two new designations in an effort to attract Web surfers unhappy with their current addresses.

The Sunnyvale-based company expects to begin registering new addresses under the domains of "ymail" and "rocketmail" around noon PDT Thursday at http://mail.yahoo.com.

It will be the first time that Yahoo has offered e-mail accounts under umbrellas other than its own company name since it became a correspondence conduit in 1997.

Most news sources claim a launch time of somewhere around 12:00 or 1:00 pm PDT today (Thursday, June 19th), so if you want that special e-mail username that's eluded you since 1998, start clicking away this afternoon.

CoffeeShark · #2 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 11:40 AM

manbearpig@rocketmail.com

DominiKing · #3 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 01:39 PM

lol @ coffee

edit: it's not letting me create one that isn't @yahoo.com

joe · #4 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 01:50 PM

depends...if you use it as a professional email address (which a lot of people do), then it'd be nice to have "yourname@ymail or rocketmail.com"...but I don't know how much demand there really will be for that...

CoffeeShark · #5 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 01:53 PM

eltonjohn@rocketmail.com

FuzzyLogik · #6 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 02:33 PM

rofl...

I'll just stick with our straferight e-mail and gmail :P

Craig · #7 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 02:37 PM

Yahoo! stands to do great things now that they've told Microsoft to throttle off and have inked that deal with Google. I hope they make it, if only to keep Google and Microsoft on their toes.

Sadly though, all of the talent is leaving Yahoo (and even Google these days) to head to Facebook. When is facemail going to hit :-0

CoffeeShark · #8 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

Yahoo! stands to do great things now that they've told Microsoft to throttle off and have inked that deal with Google. I hope they make it, if only to keep Google and Microsoft on their toes.

Sadly though, all of the talent is leaving Yahoo (and even Google these days) to head to Facebook. When is facemail going to hit :-0

when yahoo does something worthwhile, I'll take notice. A couple new email addresses aren't going to impress stockholders.

Yang is gone in a month or less, I would guess.

joe · #9 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 04:25 PM

signed up for a couple rocketmail accounts...ymail?...ybother...

(see what I did there?!?...yeah, I know I'm a cornball)

CoffeeShark · #10 (**permalink**) 06-19-2008, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark

manbearpig@rocketmail.com

well, i got it. not sure what to do with it.