For many of you this may not be all that exciting (heck, if you are reading the Yahoo! Mail product blog it’s reasonable to assume you have a Yahoo! Mail account already) but for a lot of people out there getting that perfect email address has proven to be a bit of a white whale. Even I had to settle for ymailblog1 because someone had already snapped up ymailblog. Well that ends right now (or actually in the next hour or so), because…
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What’s Old is New, Just for You
Ever tried to sign up for a new email account, only to find that the name you want is unavailable? We hear you – as the most popular email service in the world, Yahoo! Mail has more than a quarter of a billion users worldwide* – that’s a LOT of email addresses in use already. With that in mind, we’re making millions of desirable email addresses available today with the launch of two shiny new domains: ymail.com and rocketmail.com.
If “rocketmail” rings a bell, it’s because it’s “vintage” Internet. Back in the 90s, RocketMail was one of the very first free Webmail services – Yahoo! acquired it in 1997 and built the first version of Yahoo! Mail based on RocketMail technology. Some of the original RocketMail users chose to keep their RocketMail IDs to show that they had been among the first users of Webmail. Now, like so many beloved classics that are hip again – cupcakes, big sunglasses, Indiana Jones, The New Kids on the Block – RocketMail is back for a new generation to enjoy.
These new domains will offer the same great Yahoo! Mail experience – like unlimited storage, integrated instant messaging, free text messaging, and localized versions around the world. And as always, a Yahoo! email address works for everything across Yahoo!, from checking Mail to using Messenger, Flickr, Groups, Finance, and more. The added bonus is that with these two new domains, you’ll have the chance to land your perfect email address to help reflect who you are – which is what the majority of you are looking for according to a recent Harris Interactive survey.**
So whether your style is brand spanking new (ymail.com), hip vintage (rocketmail.com) or comfortable classic (yahoo.com), surf on over to http://new.mail.yahoo.com/addresses and get that email address you always wanted.
John Kremer
Vice President, Yahoo! Mail
*According to ComScore media metrix, April 2008
** In a survey of 2,035 online adults conducted by Harris Interactive, 56% of respondents indicated they somewhat to strongly agree with the statement that they want their email address to reflect who they are.
cuz maebe u have a problem…. duh?????????????/
LMAO you got giped dude
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HAI RIYAN HOW ARE YOU
It seems like YAHOO has total control of ATT and all the other companies that were bound together. Now my new ATT DSL has to accept YAHOO or I dont have DSL. I am looking for a way to get DSL without having to pay YAHOO to sell info about me. Yes they do. Read the EULA and privacy agreements. HELP HELP HELP.
yea
yahoo sucks***
Sorry, this is kind of related but not exactly (I just couldn’t figure out how/where else to post an yahoomail related question.)
Over time, I’ve signed up for more than one address for a specific task. I’m now trying to streamline/consolidate my accounts. The problem is I can’t remember them all and I can’t figure out how to find them.
Can I just concentrate on those that I do and figure that the unused accounts will just be “purged” at some point. Does Yahoo have a policy on that?
thanks for your help
[...] interacts with the Groups membership systems, users who create Yahoo! ID’s and choose the Ymail or Rocketmail domains (rather than yahoo.com) may have trouble joining groups (via the "Join This Group" button [...]
How do i open my email
I am not able to logout of my ymail account as there is no logout button/link on the page
If you’re blogging long term, it would be YES. You can use free hosted blogs to test a niche.
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I thought I would try here since the yahoo questions wasn’t getting me to where I wanted to be. I was certainly loving the new email system, but then I wanted an url in my sig. It set up just fine, but then it went screwy and now I’m fed up with it. How will I know when it is fixed?
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I clicked your link to the TrueSwitch web page and it won’t let me transfer my email from “pacbell.net.”
What’s the story?
Thanks – Rich
i have change my yahoo email…….yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like my new rocketmail but want to keep my old yahoo mail for the time being. Messenger is set to log me into the old one. But sometimes, for some reason, it insists on logging me into the new one. Also sometimes when working in the old one, I click on a folder and am taken to rocket mail! Is this an ff3 issue or yahoo? It’s infuriating! Ps I tried keeping logged in to one and not the other and that doesn’t work.
I am not able to logout of my ymail account as there is no logout button/link on the page
HOW DO I LOG INTO MY @ymail account??
I’ve set it up and when I try logging in on the normal yahoo page it doesn’t work…so where do I go??
Hi Ryan,
I am one of those vintage original Rocketmail users who has a Yahoo! ID of xxxxxxs.rm with primary Yahoo! Mail Address of xxxxxxs@rocketmail.com and of course have to use alternate email address for all yahoogroups emails. The Yahoo mail still says “Your Yahoo! Mail account is no longer active.
Unfortunately, we cannot reactivate your account because: Yahoo! Mail does not support the reactivation of rocketmail accounts. Please sign up for a new Yahoo! Mail account. Thank you.”
I tried to go and create xxxxxxs@rocketmail.com but it said the id was already used. Is it someone elses or is it used because it is mine but I can’t use it?
I will try to figure out how to ask a Yahoo mail support question too.
Thank you
its very heartening to realize that i have so many folks for company. unable to sign in in view of invalid ID and password. have written to the customer care- dont know whether they care. and if they dont- there’ll be no customers to care for – makes their jobs easier i guess- ha ha!
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Can we login to yahoomessenger with the new ymailid?
I tried but Not able to…
pz help me out
Hi Ryan, thanks for the editing and the answers.
pls i not find my masinger pag can you help to find it ??
Having to type in @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com every … single … time is a real irritant!! Why not allow ‘username y’ or ‘username r’ respectively for ‘username@ymail.com’ or ‘username@rocketmail.com’? There is no syntax confusion since a space is not allowed in a username. This will make life so much easier for thousands of people.
Why i can’t send messages? I receive any message but I can’t send… Why? Please HELPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!
Melvin,
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I edited your last comment because it contained actual email addresses (don’t want people getting spammed because they are reading the blog). The answer to your questions, and a few others, are in a new post. The short answers to your questions are:
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1) Nope
2) In theory, yes…in practice, it’s a gamble
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Please check out the newer post for the longer versions.
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Ryan
OK, I got a question that Yahoo has not answered when I emailed them.
I had a Yahoo email account “example1@yahoo.com” for a very long time and my Yahoo ID is “example1″. Recently I subscribed to “example@rocketmail.com”. Now:
1) Can I merge the two accounts and use “example1″ as my Yahoo ID for my “example@rocketmail.com” email?
2) If not, can I CLOSE the “example1″ account and then set up “example1″ as a YAHOO PROFILE for my “example@rocketmail.com” email? Will the system allow it? (I don’t want to end up with the Yahoo Profile telling me that “example1″ is taken up and make me regret closing my “example1″ account.)
Regards
*Comment edited by blog admin to remove actual email addresses. Replaced with “example”.
@JP
That’s what I’ve been saying all along. I can’t believe that Yahoo still doesn’t offer IMAP…
The fact that GMail can do it for free is making me very envious of anyone I know who has a Gmail account.
Is it really a big deal that there are new “domains” available? It almost seems like a distraction from that fact that they don’t offer IMAP… at any price.
Hi,
Read the news about rocketmail.com coming back and tried to sign up using my old rocketmail ID – that was already taken. ok, so i logged into yahoo using my old xxx@rocketmail.com ID and that worked, but then, I get the following message:
Unfortunately, we cannot reactivate your account because:
Yahoo! Mail does not support the reactivation of rocketmail accounts. Please sign up for a new Yahoo! Mail account. Thank you.
So what can I do? I’d love to have my old rocketmail ID back, you are telling me I can use rocketmail again, but right there it says, I can no longer reactive…hmmmmm….
Thanks for your help!
cheers
Kurt
hello
i have already a yahoo id but now i have made another one.i wish to receive mail sent on this id on my freshly made id.so what procedure i should follow now
THANK YOU! My ymail email addresses are all working again. I’m glad Yahoo! corrected this mistake with fairly quick turn-around. Good job.
Thanks a Lot….my id is now working……
Yes, It’s working now. Good job, men.
So, if I’m a USA guy.. ‘n I want POP service free, I just goto yahoo.co.uk and sign up for email there, and then configure my POP?
:)
Thanks alot, I managed to login now.
IT’S WORKING!!!!!! TRY IT NOW!!!!!!
I was very excited to finally be able to get the email names I have wanted and my family has wanted. I spent time setting up each account, verifying it through the alternate email addresses, etc. I used the Ymail domain exclusively. Nine out of ten do not work…same complaint as all my friends are saying…wrong password. Disappointing to say the least…I hope that Yahoo and Ryan can make a quick fix before lost confidence in Yahoo.
@Ryan: you said that:
“We’ve updated our systems to accommodate these registration behaviors, and will be reactivating all impacted accounts today”
nice to hear that, but …i still can’t access my new @ymail.com account…
What’s to do ? fill out a form to you guys ?!
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Are you kidding? You have to pay to get POP access on these ymail accounts?
Google provides free IMAP … wake up guys!
Hi everyone,
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Very sorry to hear about some of the registration problems reported here. It turns out that the number of existing Yahoo! users who went out to register new accounts (and in some cases multiple accounts to secure IDs for family and friends) FAR exceeded what we had anticipated.
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We’ve updated our systems to accommodate these registration behaviors, and will be reactivating all impacted accounts today.
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Ryan
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