Yahoo Relaunches RocketMail - Also Comes Up With YMail To Help Email Users Choose Better IDs
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Have you tried to create a new email id on Yahoo recently? How often have you gotten frustrated while getting yourself registered on a popular web portal just because every username that input, already seems to exist in the database? Well, in its process to combat similar issues, Yahoo has introduced the Ymail.com email domain and reintroduced RocketMail.com.
Currently Yahoomail is used by 260 million users. Consequently, if I have to register on Yahoo Mail, I would have to take a weird name such smartnhandsomencuteesahil@yahoo.com. Launching ymail.com and reintroducing Rocketmail.com, this gives Yahoo Mail users a more vivid choice to get a mail id of their favorite names and now with a more stylish name such as Ymail (this name always make me think of GMail).
It seems, it’s again one of the optimistic strategies taken up by Yahoo to get some respite out of the fact that launching Ymail and relaunching Rocketmail will make sure that Yahoo might still continue to dominate the e-mail market at least for some more time now. As a part of mail features, Ymail will have the same features as that of Yahoo Mail, including unlimited storage, instant messaging integration and virus protection.
As a part of trivia, I must tell you that Yahoo acquired Rocketmail in 1997 and and used its interface as the foundation of Yahoo Mail. After 1997, no new Rocketmail.com email addresses could be registered. Rocketmail was the only serious competitor to Hotmail. Yahoo let old Rocketmail users use their mail addresses and until today, those with Rocketmail addresses are regarded as the original users of the internet!!
Shāyon adds : Of course, you could get much more options on the username front if you choose to use their country specific domain names (like .co.in or .co.uk) with your email address. However, I think, not many people manage to avoid the charm of a .com email address. Anyway, advent of RocketMail and YMail on the scene is hardly a huge step towards the dominance in the web email client market. Personally, it would be a killer step if Yahoo decides to allow POP3 and IMAP access for free or at least come up with a desktop email client of its own where Yahoo Mail shall be pre-configured. One of the major reasons behind the popularity of Outlook in the desktop email client scenario was because Hotmail allowed users to access their email remotely using Outlook, at a time when Hotmail was a very popular email solutions choice.
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