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Old 5 Oct 2024, 04:53 AM   #1
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Google has gmail, why doesn't Yahoo mainly launch using ymail.com?

ymail.com can be retained as a registered email domain.
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Old 5 Oct 2024, 09:57 AM   #2
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ymail.com can be retained as a registered email domain.
cool.
U are out. I do have @ymail and @y7mail addresses.
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Old 5 Oct 2024, 02:22 PM   #3
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Google gives everybody with an account a "GMail" address automatically. Some connection exists to Google.com or Googlemail.com but my understanding about this is not clear. I think they are for the same account but allow for the different suffix.

Yahoo Mail did offer ymail dot com and rocketmail dot com some years ago but stopped offering new accounts for those. One who created such can maintain it and continue to use it, but no more new accounts with ymail or rocketmail.
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Old 5 Oct 2024, 02:25 PM   #4
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U are out. I do have @ymail and @y7mail addresses.
Thank you for your answer, but you didn't get my point. Of course I know that ymail.com is a Yahoo mail domain.
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Old 5 Oct 2024, 11:27 PM   #5
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Presumable Google went with gmail because they wanted to reserve google.com for other things. It's too late for Yahoo to do that.

Some years ago Google mail accounts in the UK used googlemail.com because there was some existing company called gmail.

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Old 8 Oct 2024, 08:04 PM   #6
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There is the potential for confusion. I had a @ymail.com long ago, with a better handle than my @gmail.com. Then I noticed some of my mails went missing (people told me they sent, but I never received). Turned out, when people saw @ymail, they (more often than not) assumed and typed @gmail instead.. Sadly I did not, and do not own, the @gmail with my (ymail) handle. I quickly abandoned my @ymail...
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Old 9 Oct 2024, 05:36 AM   #7
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Such decisions are branding decisions. I have had many email accounts whose adddress was not ***mail.com. For example, nearly all corporate email accounts use the company domain name (usually also used for their main website).

Yahoo was originally a search and related services company. They purchased Rocketmail in 1997 to get their webmail service. At a later time new accounts could get a ymail.com or rocketmail.com email address, but they returned to their core branded name yahoo.com. You can get some insight by checking the dates these domains were first registered and Yahoo email started:
  • 1995-01-18: yahoo.com domain registered
  • 1997-01-02: rocketmail.com domain registered
  • 1997-10-08: yahoo.com email service started
  • 1999-03-03: ymail.com domain registered
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Old 9 Oct 2024, 02:36 PM   #8
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Such decisions are branding decisions. I have had many email accounts whose adddress was not ***mail.com. For example, nearly all corporate email accounts use the company domain name (usually also used for their main website).

Yahoo was originally a search and related services company. They purchased Rocketmail in 1997 to get their webmail service. At a later time new accounts could get a ymail.com or rocketmail.com email address, but they returned to their core branded name yahoo.com. You can get some insight by checking the dates these domains were first registered and Yahoo email started:
  • 1995-01-18: yahoo.com domain registered
  • 1997-01-02: rocketmail.com domain registered
  • 1997-10-08: yahoo.com email service started
  • 1999-03-03: ymail.com domain registered
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Old 11 Oct 2024, 12:22 PM   #9
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@googlemail.com is an alias to @gmail.com even outside of UK.

Any email sent to xxx@googlemail.com arrives into xxx@gmail.com mailbox.
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