Yahoo for some reason or another has brought back @rocketmail and has also added @ymail to their service. Rocketmail has been around forever and went away for a little while. Maybe it is just some sort of marketing ploy to say hey come look at what we brought back.

In any account you can create names with @rocketmail and sign into yahoo messenger with them. So for all you elite name types, go create some new ids before they are gone. Here is the post from the Yahoo Messenger Blog regarding the new Yahoo! IDs.

As you may have heard, Yahoo! Mail is offering new domains for email addresses: ymail.com and rocketmail.com. That means a whole new crop of email addresses that may not have been available as a yahoo.com address are now up for grabs.

These new Yahoo! Mail addresses also act as Yahoo! IDs that let you sign in to other services on the Yahoo! network, including Yahoo! Messenger. When you sign into Messenger, just be sure to type in the entire email address (e.g. dairyman88@ymail.com, joeuser@rocketmail.com) into the Yahoo! ID box, followed by your password.

So if you’ve been thinking about getting a new email address and/or Yahoo! ID, head over to Yahoo! Mail and sign up. During registration, click on the drop down menu to select the domain you want to use (yahoo.com, ymail.com, rocketmail.com).

Sarah Bacon
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