In an effort to boost its webmail usage or delay the exodus of free mail users from Yahoo to Google GMail, Yahoo has introduced the ymail.com email domain and reintroduced RocketMail.com.
Yahoo.com email addresses are currently used (or claimed) by over 260 million global users, and chances are, if you’re new to Yahoo Mail, your name is taken and you probably have to register some ridiculous email address, like LBakerFireUSA185302@yahoo.com
Now, Yahoo Mail users have a more vivid choice in registering their favorite email addresses or usernames. Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com will have the same features as Yahoo.com email addresses like unlimited storage, instant messaging integration and virus protection.
Rocketmail is a rather old email domain, and at one time was one of the most widely used webmail services which rivaled Hotmail. Yahoo acquired Rocketmail.com in 1997 and used its interface as the foundation of Yahoo Mail. After 1997, no new Rocketmail.com email addresses could be registered.
After the acquisition, Yahoo let Rocketmail users continue to use their email addresses, and up until today, those with Rocketmail.com email addresses were regarded as the original users of the Internet. I guess now that Yahoo is letting anyone register a Rocketmail.com email address, that distinction has been taken away.









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45 responses so far ↓
Kho ChingSan on Jun 19, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Dear Mr. Loren Baker,
Congratulations, sir! Yahoo rocks! I love Yahoo email, I have been a Yahoo user since july 2000. Hopefully Yahoo starts kicking with Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com. Yeaah!
Awesome,
Kho ChingSan
wende on Jun 19, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Do we really need more of these?
I wonder if I still want to use my regular email am I able to do a ymail too?
Yannis on Jun 19, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Seems like a mess having 3 different email domains within the same company. To me gmail seems to be a cleaner email account service.
adidasus on Jun 19, 2008 at 11:43 pm
long
Software Testing on Jun 20, 2008 at 1:31 am
YMail!
Is that “G” replaced with “Y” ;-)
Joshua Issac on Jun 20, 2008 at 5:59 am
Don’t forget, Google has googlemail.com domains as well. It’s not that ‘clean’.
Software Testing on Jun 20, 2008 at 6:13 am
I am not! But which email service do you prefer? Gmail or Yahoo?
juneid khan on Jun 25, 2008 at 7:48 am
hewas very good mailcom
Sadie Nelson on Jun 26, 2008 at 9:12 am
I have just set up a ymail.com account and I cannot find out where to sign in - pleas e send me information to my yahoo address as my friends are email ymail and I can get into it.
Hanif on Jun 26, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Sadie Nelson , u will have to sign in on same page.
mail.yahoo.com
go there and enter your full email address as a user id and password and u will be in your inbox.
i personally feel that its not a bad move by yahoo that they have started new domains but i dont thin it was important.
Kho ChingSan on Jun 26, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Dear Sadie Nelson,
When you are signing into mail.yahoo.com, enter full user id, eg: sadienelson@ymail.com then enter your password. It will work, have a nice try there!
rev castro on Jun 26, 2008 at 9:44 pm
sir loren, im an avid yahoo mail user for almost 10 years now is there any big problem to continue this very good service that yahoo.mail gives to mankind.
regards and more power to yahoo management.
Marlin Snyder on Jun 28, 2008 at 2:07 am
Since I can’t download the messages in yahoo.com, I am wonder if one of these other emails would work on my Microsoft Vista operating system.
aathi on Jul 1, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I wonder if I still want to use my regular email am I able to do a ymail too?
too?
barani vivekanandan on Jul 5, 2008 at 6:50 am
I want to brief clearification for enter the Ymail.com ID.
n.ramadevi on Jul 10, 2008 at 12:15 am
were do i check my mail?
RUSHI on Jul 12, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Since I can’t download the messages in yahoo.com, I am wonder if one of these other emails would work on my Microsoft Vista operating system.
sana on Jul 13, 2008 at 11:51 am
hi
sajith dissanayake on Jul 16, 2008 at 4:44 am
dear sir iam using yahoo mail from 5 year but i dont no how to sing in ymail
thanks
iam sajith dissanayake
from south of srilanka
cosmo on Jul 17, 2008 at 8:42 am
my mail at ymail.com is not working well
namal rajapakse on Jul 19, 2008 at 4:25 am
how i check my mail?
regi on Jul 19, 2008 at 6:07 am
good
tyrone on Jul 24, 2008 at 5:48 pm
need password
tyrone on Jul 24, 2008 at 5:49 pm
email
ibrahim on Aug 1, 2008 at 7:29 am
please, i want to know about your thins
thaks
Milind on Aug 4, 2008 at 3:10 am
my milind99@rocketmail.com is not working how to login for that??? plz let me know…
Thanks in advance.
CLINTON on Aug 4, 2008 at 12:19 pm
wow
risqi on Aug 7, 2008 at 8:13 pm
test
kola on Aug 10, 2008 at 11:19 am
I sure appreciate this, i feel it is designed specially for me, i can really have my mail the way i want it: easy for me to call out to practically any one, without any ambiguity. Thank you for doing me that honour. Makes me remember the saying; the best things in life are really free.
kingofkings on Aug 17, 2008 at 7:01 am
verycool
kingofkings on Aug 17, 2008 at 7:16 am
i like it very nice god bless u
mahesh on Aug 20, 2008 at 5:27 pm
how to loge in y mail
Dr.I.A. Mashhadi on Aug 23, 2008 at 8:24 am
I have setup the said mail last week. Just after setting up i have received mails on the new address only for two days.Then i am unable to setup the new address
disha on Aug 29, 2008 at 12:30 pm
How To Login In Rocketmail.com
jaja on Aug 31, 2008 at 4:14 pm
HOW DO U LOGIIN ON YMAIL
Nilay Desai on Sep 3, 2008 at 2:58 am
my y mail id is not allowing to sign in. what is the reason? do inform
thanks
teresa on Sep 13, 2008 at 1:11 am
i can’t log in to ymail
muthu on Sep 14, 2008 at 4:56 am
hi
Diwan on Sep 16, 2008 at 11:15 pm
how to loge in my new y mail ID
Kho ChingSan on Sep 17, 2008 at 12:47 am
Dear all,
How to login is like this…When you are signing into mail.yahoo.com, enter full user id, eg: your_name@ymail.com, then enter your password.
It will work, have a nice try there!
Teresa.K.Pattery on Oct 10, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I am very happy to have a mail ID of rocketmail.com. thanks
yusuf on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:08 pm
how can i assess my ymail? thanks
M. Ahsan B. habib on Oct 14, 2008 at 6:31 am
I forgot my password. So how can I open my mail ?
Ogunleyeb Adeola on Oct 28, 2008 at 8:52 am
How can I use Rocketmail.com effectively?
Janet Roth Shaw on Nov 5, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I cannot find out how to access my new email acct. Where do we sign in to it? Please help. Thanks
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