Yahoo! Mail Launches New Personalized E-mail Addresses

Business Wire, Oct 19, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 2000

john@example-domain.com, dennis@fun-guy.org, jane@loves2dance.net --

Make a Statement, Reserve Your Family Name, Get Your Club Online

For those people who have always wanted to have their own unique, personalized e-mail address, Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global communications, commerce and media company, today launched a new Personal Address feature for Yahoo!(R) Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com), one of the Internet's largest and most popular free e-mail services. Currently available for people with @yahoo.com e-mail addresses, the new Personal Address feature allows new and current users to quickly and easily create and use their own unique e-mail address in conjunction with Yahoo! Mail. In addition to sending and receiving e-mail at their own domain, users can create personalized e-mail addresses connected to that domain name and send, receive and manage e-mail from those personalized e-mail addresses using the same powerful tools and features that Yahoo! Mail currently offers.

Each Personal Address registration is seamlessly integrated with a user's current Yahoo! Mail inbox and account preferences. After users have registered for the Personal Address feature, they can send e-mails from their personalized addresses by simply selecting from amongst addresses they have created in a dropdown menu on the "compose" screen. Recipients of the messages will then receive the e-mails from the Yahoo! Mail users' personalized addresses. The cost for the Personal Address service is $35 per year and includes registration of a domain name and up to five e-mail addresses for that domain name. Users who register for the feature can invite friends or family to use those e-mail addresses so they can all share the same new personalized domain.

"Yahoo! Mail's new Personal Address feature allows us to offer our millions of users another unique, personal, and fun service that gives them further flexibility in the way they use their e-mail," said Lisa Pollock, senior producer, Yahoo!. "By tightly integrating personalized e-mail, domain registration and Yahoo! Mail's powerful features in one package, we're helping to give people the tools they need to get the most out of an easy-to-use and effective communications tool."

Establish Yourself, Your Friends and Your Family On the Web

In addition to five e-mail addresses at their own domain, people who sign up for the Yahoo! Mail Personal Address feature also receive 15 megabytes of storage for use with their Yahoo! Geocities (http://geocities.yahoo.com) Web site. Also, anyone who types an individual's domain name into a Web browser will be taken directly to the user's Yahoo! Geocities site. With their new Personal Address, a user's Web site is easy to access and easy for others to remember.

Some of the Best Things in Life Are Free!

Yahoo! Mail is one of the Web's largest free e-mail providers, winner of the PC World Best of Breed Award and is rated CNet's Best Free Web-Based E-mail. Delivering 6.1 billion messages on Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and eGroups in September 2000, Yahoo!'s global communications platform is one of the largest in the world. Yahoo!'s comprehensive suite of communications services aim to give users everything they need to communicate and organize their lives in a centralized online location via the Web. From free e-mail, instant messaging, and voice chat to address books, calendars, and personal file storage, Yahoo!'s integrated services offer a wide range of options including the ability to receive alerts on your mobile phone, pager or personal digital assistant and send messages to and from wireless devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 166 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. The company also provides online business services designed to enhance the Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients, including audio and video streaming, store hosting and management, and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 24 World properties. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.

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