sympatico.tk
 

mail.sympatico.tk I open the domain for email there.
If anyone has interest in it, could ask me to open an account.
The email is free forever. Cheers.:)

The home page is in Chinese only (as least it looks Chinese to me...). This may be a major bonus for some, and a major turn off for others ;)

[Moderator:]

jeffpan, would you please send a PM to Edwin to see if you should be given Service Representative status. Thank you.

OK that's now done.
If you anybody want to check this webmail, could just PM me.

So they stole the name Sympatico from a corporate giant, Bell Canada, which uses it for their online brand and email addresses - sympatico.ca.

^ That's not all that different from fastmail.fm being started 10 years ago despite fastmail.ca already existing. ;)

It may be that, like "fastmail", "sympatico" is registered as a trademark only in Canada -- not elsewhere.

It's different because Bell Canada is an enormous national corporation and fastmail.ca was a tiny little independent email company, as was fastmail.fm at that time.

Shall we leave it to Bell Canada & sympatico.tk to sort it out among themselves, if indeed there is anything to sort out?

I'm sure nothing will be sorted out because sympatico.tk is so insignificant.

en? so could you check these domains:

aol.cn
earthlink.cn
gmail.cn

They are not under control by those .com owner.

for those who is interested in the original QQMail, here is the english login and signup page:

http://m98.mail.qq.com/

Gmail.cn is not owned by Google and they still allow the service to exist? :confused: That surprises me. A small corporation may not bother to make costs for a lawsuit, but Google has money enough for a whole team of lawyers.

Normally you can register any domain, with the risk of going to court only when you deliberately registered a trademark protected name with mala fide intentions and causing confusion or harm. If gmail.cn provides email, Google could interpretate that as mala fide intentions (although you can also state that they should have been more clever and register it themselves before anyone else could)

I need a qq id :confused: to be bound. Registration leads to, for me, an unreadable page.

the company who ownes gmail.cn has some goverment background.
here in China, the gov is the biggest gangland, so no rules can influnce them.

QQ.com is a very attractive domain, I am tempted.

However, the below pages are only in Chinese:
Contract (Terms of Service)
Customer center (aka helpdesk?)
Email help and general help

Also, the "safe mode" option to sign in seems to be defunct.

A few issues to be resolved, but once that's the case I'd be very tempted due to the attractive domainname.

Oh, one other thing: Chinese government won't just shut down any account without prior notice? I don't mind the fact that governments are authorised to monitor email traffic (I got nothing to hide), but I'd be a bit upset if my email account would suddenly be gone.