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Yahoo to go beyond @yahoo.com

June 19th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Yahoo! Mail, the free web mail service by Yahoo Inc. has over 266 million users worldwide. Result? Most of the good user names are gone and newcomers have to compromise with names such as ‘dave597438984@yahoo.com’. To address the issue, Yahoo will start offering emails on domain names ymail.com and rocketmail.com around noon PDT on Thursday. The rocketmail name dates back to Yahoo’s $92 million acquisition in 1997 of Four11, a company that offered the free RocketMail service (Owner of this blog has one such unique address).

In a previous attempt, early in 2006, Yahoo! Mail introduced aliases to the mail so that users could add a (single) alias username containing a dot character for a pre-existing account.

Jon Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail, also said Yahoo Mail is planning to introduce “smarter inbox” feature to capture communications on your social networking site. Kremer says - “What we believe here at Yahoo is all communication is eventually coming together. You don’t need to bounce out to a separate social communications site or a different social event site when most of those tools are really just communications. If it’s built on the same address book and calendar information, you can see them coming together in a single, more productive, smarter inbox.”