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6 Mar 2023, 09:20 AM | #1 |
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every country shoud have its own branded Email
Af far as I know,
So what's the branded mail provider in your country? |
6 Mar 2023, 01:44 PM | #2 | |
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PL- wp.pl, onet.pl, interia.pl, o2.pl, gazeta.pl. The first three from the list offer many domains to choose from. NO- hotmail.no, yahoo.no, mailia.no, wemail.no (i do not know anybody using last two) |
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6 Mar 2023, 02:57 PM | #3 |
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Norway has the famous provider Runbox though it's not free.
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6 Mar 2023, 05:45 PM | #4 |
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6 Mar 2023, 08:52 PM | #5 |
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6 Mar 2023, 08:53 PM | #6 | |
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7 Mar 2023, 04:19 AM | #7 |
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With 1.5 billion active users Gmail is really a worldwide email service. I think Outlook.com/Hotmail is around 500 million users making it also pretty international.
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7 Mar 2023, 06:53 AM | #8 |
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I don't see why a country should have "it's own" branded email (whatever that means). Any reason for that?
And what does "it's own branded email" mean? I would say that Gmail and Hotmail are the USA's branded mail. They are international brands. They are used by users all around the world. The services target users all around the world. And using these services doesn't brand one as being American. Perhaps AOL is a brand used mostly by American users? In the same way Fastmail is not really "Australia's own brand". From the beginning they acted like an international brand, marketed themselves as an international service and most of there users were American, and their equipment was always in the USA (NYC) because that's where most of their users were. Are most of Runbox's users Norwegian? or are they just a company based in Norway that serves customers from all over the world? ProtonMail is probably also a much more international brand than a Swiss brand. In the same way hotmail.no is not a norwegian brand, and Yahoo Japan is not a Japanese brand etc. They are international brands owned by American companies. When I get email from addresses in say att.net or verizon.net I'm quite sure the senders are American, and when I get email from rogers.com I'm quite positive the sender is Canadian, so they are certainly American and Canadian branded email addresses, respectively. And to the OP's question ("what's the branded mail provider in your country?"): I would say that Walla (walla.com or walla.co.il). It is the one most used by people in Israel that are not using international brands. There used to be some other local free email services but I hardly see them being used nowadays. Of course most people around here use gmail.com (actually almost everyone; some people don't realize that an email address doesn't have to end with @gmail.com). Some use hotmail.com (it's more popular with the Arabic speaking population). Very few still use Yahoo. Some Russian services are popular with the local Russian speaking population. |
7 Mar 2023, 08:32 AM | #9 | |
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7 Mar 2023, 08:33 AM | #10 |
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7 Mar 2023, 08:41 AM | #11 | |
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I define "branded" that when people says XXX country Email, they first time think of YYY, which is a branded email. Or you search from google "Russia email" you most probably get yandex/mail.ru etc. other stuff,
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7 Mar 2023, 06:44 PM | #12 | ||
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So your definition is something like "the first brand(s) that come to mind when mentioning the country and email together". And the easiest "mind" to try is Google search (though ChatGPT might be a good "mind" to ask too).
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Searching Google for "Israel email" provides no results about email services. only contact info for various government agencies (as was also the first result for "Russia email". Searching for "Israel email providers" produces links mainly to outdated info: 1st result is "Top Websites Ranking for Email in Israel - start.me" and I cannot understand the rational of their listing. 2nd results leads to an email addresses.com page! But it seems to be at least 20 years outdated. 4th result is to a page on fepg.net that also seems outdated. So my conclusion is that really nothing can really be considered as Israel's email brand or brands. Searching for "Germany email" does seem to point to WEB.DE and GMX.DE as the strongest brands, so certainly Gemany does have it's national brands of email, like Russia does. Searching for "Switzerland email" gives Proton as the first result. Searching for "Australia email" Fastmail is nowhere to be found on the first page of results.The first result was "Yahoo Australia". The second was "5 Best Australian Email Providers in 2022" and it listed: Gmail, Outlook, Apple/iCloud, Yahoo and Protonmail. Now I asked ChatGPT. Here's the conversation: Quote:
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7 Mar 2023, 07:04 PM | #13 | |
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I continued that conversation:
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7 Mar 2023, 07:40 PM | #14 |
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the answer provided by chatgpt looks really fun. where did you query it?
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7 Mar 2023, 07:45 PM | #15 |
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I suppose another way of asking this question would be:
"What major email providers are mostly known only in their home countries, and would be unlikely to be known by those outside the country." From a practical standpoint, I like having an email address that is instantly recognized and easily typed by anyone in the world. I run some mailing lists and people with long clever email addresses before the @ and strange domains after the @ are much more likely to be entered into our systems incorrectly. There are some that are so hard to read and type that I must basically go letter by letter and carefully hand peck each one and then double-check I haven't made a mistake. |