Did you need another new email address? We didn’t think so, but you may be still interested to know that Yahoo has decided to add two new domains to their mail service. Today around 12:00 PM (Pacific), they will introduce Ymail and reintroduce RocketMail as new domains their users can use to register for new email accounts.
If RocketMail sounded familiar to you it’s because it was one of the first major webmail services available when email first became popular. It’s been too long, but I almost think at one point I even had a RocketMail account. Eventually Yahoo acquired them in 1997 and used their technology for Yahoo Mail. Now they’re reviving RocketMail by allowing users to sign up for an email account under the domain.
Why has Yahoo chosen now as the perfect moment to add two domains to their mail service? An article from the AFP points out how right now Yahoo is trying to prove to their followers and their investors that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Yahoo Mail is already the most popular web-based mail solution out there with millions of users, but adding new domains has it’s benefits. They say, “adding new domains is intended to let users who have outgrown or never really liked their yahoo.com email addresses to have chances at better choices.“
Isn’t it a little ironic that they chose one of their domains to be Ymail, like Gmail? At least Ymail is short and sweet unlike Rocketmail which seems a little long, doesn’t it? While Hotmail is a little long, Microsoft introduced the @live.com domain not that long ago which is short and sweet as well. It’s also worth pointing out that Yahoo has used Ymail before for an email service for mobile devices.
Remember, today at 12 PM Pacific, you’ll have a chance to scoop up the address of your choice. If your current user ID is something long with a bunch of numbers attached to it, it’ll be a great opportunity for you to get something better. They say 70% of adults prefer an email address which includes their names, so here’s your chance to get your name without a string of numbers attached.
Doesn’t yahoo have unique id’s for all their domains? For example if someone registered arthur@yahoo.co.uk I can’t register arthur@yahoo.com. Won’t this also be true for ymail and rocketmail?
i have a rocketmail id it starts as dizzy_lizzy_ ? @ rocketmail .com
it in my other e mail address thinlizzy_63@ yahoo.com but it just doesn’t show me the rest and i cant remember for the life of me
Australia has @y7mail.com email addresses, I believe the have had them for a while.
Do we go to yahoo.com to get these new addresses?
I cant see them yet.
I imagine it will be, however, I don’t know for sure.
Yes, just go to mail.yahoo.com and when they launch at noon (Pacific) you’ll be able to sign-up with one of the new domains.
It’s up, but you cannot register already registered ID. You can however register long names and numbers @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com
My first few tries failed (things were a little shaky for a few minutes and I got some error messages) but at 12:08 PDT I managed to register a firstlast@ymail.com address!
THANK YOU for this great tip!
Apparently you can register a previously-registered @yahoo.com address. The first/last combination I wanted was taken back in 1997, but I managed to get it on ymail.com today anyway.
I was able to register an address at ymail.com that was already taken at yahoo.com, so you can register addresses that were previously taken. I think that was kind of the point of adding the additional domains.
Same here… took about 10 tries to get through to get the two addresses I wanted. Looks like the registration service is down yet again though. I get this error now: “Sorry, Unable to process request at this time — error 999.”
Thanks for the tip, I just made 4.
there is bug on new account registration, cant register
Cool, thanks for the warning! Got two very nice, short @ymail addresses now
I’ll switch to those from my old Y! accounts.
Just keep trying… I’m sure it will go through.
Yeah, you’re right. I only tested one combination because I was in a hurry.
I was finally able to get my first and last name in an email address.
thanks for info
ymail pretty cool 
I want to program rocketmail into my email on iPhone, does anyone know what to put in for set up?