It's obvious that if you wanted to get the email address john@yahoo.com, you couldn't. Saturation has meant that if you want to get an email address at Yahoo!, or for that matter, Gmail, you frequently have to resort to adding numbers or other such differentiating characters. What a pain, right?

With two new domains, you could possibly get john@ymail.com or john@rocketmail.com, if you're fast.

Those with long memories will even remember the old rocketmail.com domain name from waaaaay back in 1997, when Yahoo! bought Four11 and its RocketMail product. I even recall having a RocketMail account back then.

Hopefully when this goes live, Yahoo!'s servers will be able to handle the rush of people trying to get their favorite email addresses. Naturally Yahoo! hopes to see a rush akin to the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893.

Users with the new domains will still get the same UI and "everything" that Yahoo! Mail has. Yahoo!, according to comScore, has approximately 266 million users, with Microsoft close behind with 264 million users and Gmail's 102 million.

Me? I'll sign up, but mostly so I have a better Yahoo! IM account ID. Email? I'll stick with Gmail.

Update: It's gone live as you can see from the updated image above. However, the servers are overloaded and when I tried to register I kept "URL does not exist errors." It finally worked, however. Hurry, hurry!

Source: Reported By Tech Ex http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/