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Ever tried to sign up for a new email account then the name you want is unavailable? Yahoo! Mail has launched two new global availability domains: ymail.com and rocketmail.com.
The Internet media giant Yahoo! gives people the chance to get the e-mail address they have always wanted with the launch of ymail.com and rocketmail.com. People can finally say goodbye to clark1978@yahoo.com because they can get a new Yahoo! e-mail address at ymail.com and rocketmail.com that just released yesterday.

Yahoo! Mail now has more than 260 million users worldwide (according to comScore Media Metrix, April 2008). As a result, many desirable e-mail addresses have already been taken for the yahoo.com domain, as well as for localized versions of the namespace in countries around the world. With the two new e-mail domain choices, Yahoo! hope that they will make millions of new e-mail addresses available to the online community.

RocketMail was one of the very first free Webmail services. In 1997, Yahoo! acquired it and built the first version of Yahoo! Mail based on RocketMail technology. Some of the original RocketMail users chose to keep their RocketMail IDs to show that they had been among the first users of Webmail.

The new domains (ymail.com and rocketmail.com) will offer the same Yahoo! Mail features such as unlimited storage, integrated instant messaging, free text messaging, and localized versions around the world. To get the name you want in Yahoo! Mail, you can go to this address: http://new.mail.yahoo.com/addresses.