Intology – Intelligent Technology News
Computers Technology Internet Arts Business Science Sports

Yahoo Mail, the Sunnyvale, California based company is going to introduce ymail.com and rocketmail.com as two new domains which users can sign up with. They will be available for registration starting Thursday.

The move of letting users sign up with the ymail.com and rocketmail.com domains is aimed at attracting new users because it will help people find a better e-mail address.

According to John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail:

We want users to get the exact e-mail account they want so they stay with us for life. Because “yourname@yahoo.com” is likely taken by now, a lot of people must resort to unpleasant and hard-to-remember addresses such as “yourname1988@yahoo.com.

Yahoo wants to give people a new chance with a name they like.

The domain rocketmail.com is not new as RocketMail was one of the first major free webmail services and was a product of Four11. For a brief time RocketMail battled with Hotmail for the number one spot amongst free webmail services.

RocketMail and Four11 were acquired by Yahoo! in 1997. Yahoo! assimilated the RocketMail engine

Kremer said:

It’s a great brand. Those who have no memory of our service in the late 1990s indicated they like it, and those who indicated they want to be retro like it for the fact that it’s associated with Yahoo.com since the beginning.