Land rush for Yahoo ymail.com and rocketmail.com email addresses starts tomorrow
Are you sick of repeating your thomas382n28@yahoo.com email address to acquaintances who can’t quite get all of the numbers right? Would you prefer something along the lines of thomas@ymail.com? If so, you may be in luck.
Tomorrow, Yahoo is opening two domains it owns: ymail.com and rocketmail.com, according to AppScout. The rocketmail domain name dates back 11 years when Yahoo purchased Four11, CNET notes. Rocketmail would go on to serve as a basis for Yahoo Mail.
Of course getting a shiny new ymail.com domain could present a new kind of problem. Nearly every time I’ve tried to type “ymail” in this very story, I’ve typed “gmail” by accident. You can bet plenty of other users are going to do the same seeing how popular Google’s email service of that name has become.
So if you sign up for the ymail.com name, you may want to shoot a hello email to the owner of the gmail.com one and politely ask if they wouldn’t mind forwarding any personal messages over to you that they receive by accident.
[photo: flickr/Serge Melki]
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About the Author, MG Siegler
MG Siegler writes about technology trends and new media for VentureBeat, with a focus on mobile topics, social elements and key news stories. Before that, MG wrote about technology on his blog, ParisLemon. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan where he studied film. He's previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in San Diego where he did web development. He now lives in San Francisco.
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