Last updated: March 20, 2021
At the beginning of the email era (way before Gmail became a thing), Rocketmail was the go-to email provider. In fact, it was one of the first free email providers for the general public. At one point at a time, Rocketmail and Hotmail were battling for the nr. 1 spot among the free email providers.
In 1997, Yahoo acquired Four11, the company that owned the rocket mail, for $92 million in stock. On October 8th, Yahoo announced that it will begin to offer free email to its users once the acquisition is complete.
“With the acquisition of Four11’s core technologies and resources, we are able to expand our communications offerings and provide a broader range of value-added services for Internet users,” said Yahoo chief executive Tim Koogle.
After the transition, the former Rocketmail users could chose from two options:
Whatever option you choose, your old rocketmail email address worked just fine, the emails being forwarded to the new one.
After Yahoo! acquired Rocketmail, no new user registrations with Rocketmail as their email ID were accepted. In an unexpected move in 2008 (9 years after the acquisition), Yahoo! opened two email address options for new users. It was ymail.com and rocketmail.com. After 9 years, new users were again able to create an email under the rocketmail.com domain. As it often goes with unexpected changes like that, it didn’t last long. The ability for new users to register email address under these two domains was phased out later on.
Rocketmail as a service is no longer around. It was purchased by Yahoo in 1997. However, email addresses ending with rocketmail.com continue to work, but are part of the Yahoo ecosystem now.
Rocketmail is an old email domain, which falls under the Yahoo ecosystem since 1997. Before 1997, it was one of the most popular free email services.
Since Yahoo! acquired rocketmail in 1997, you now have to use Yahoo!’s interface to access your rocketmail email.
Since Rocketmail was acquired by Yahoo, you have to use their interface to reset your password.
Hello,
I really need to get into my email rocketmail but I can no longer do it due to change of phone number.
What can I do in other to access my email?
Looking forward to hear from you.
Kind regards
Just log in on Yahoo.com with username@rocketmail.com and the password you used before. I still have mine which I signed up for at the time they made rocketmail addresses available again, back in 08.
Please how can I log in to my rocketmail? Yahoo mail can’t recognize my rocketmail.i need update please
Yes I have this same issue too.
sorry but it doesn’t work…Yahoo doesn’t recognize rocketmail adresses……..
same here
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Please how can I log in to my rocketmail? Yahoo mail can’t recognize my rocketmail.i need update please
I still use mine. Just go to Yahoo mail and enter in “username” you@rocketmail.com where “you” is whatever username you had with Rocketmail.
I signed up for my account at the time Rocketmail was made available, 2008 or a little later and have no problem
Hello i need to logi in into my rocketmail addres but doesnt work
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