is gmail dominating the email space or what?

[skim milk]

It seems like any email I get where I'm one of the many on the list, everyone is using gmail (including myself). You probably look weird without a gmail account. Definitely the case in the 20s and 30s crowd.

 

[Deeko]

I do believe gmail is 3rd place. Hotmail, Yahoo, then gmail.

I have a gmail account but I don't really use it. I use my @live. I switch between accounts depending on which works better with my current mobile device of choice.

 

[Blackjack200]

I still see a lot of people with yahoo accounts and aol mail, not much hotmail though...

Also, a lot of people use their ISP account.

 

[corwin]

Still using my Hotmail account I made 12 years ago...don't think I'll ever change

 

[Doppel]

Gmail is king and I actually got firstnamelastname@gmail.com because I am l33t. It tells people a story about my level of bossiness.

 

[Doppel]

Still using my Hotmail account I made 12 years ago...don't think I'll ever change

I use mine that age but mainly for junk, which is all it deserves as hotmail is a pos.

 

[Wyndru]

My job is fully dropping our in-house email system for gmail and dropping MS Office for Google Docs. We now have our own domain set up through google so the email uses gmail but the domain name is still ours. We are basically eliminating the need for any servers or network admins. Anyone with half a brain can administer a google apps domain. Apparently this solution is becoming really popular, a lot of companies are going this route to save a buck.

I'll laugh my ass off if they pull the rug out from under all of these companies trying to save money and start charging for their google apps domains once a ton of people have converted over.

 

[JSt0rm]

Gmail is king and I actually got firstnamelastname@gmail.com because I am l33t. It tells people a story about my level of bossiness.

i admit thats pretty epic

 

[Newbian]

Still using my Hotmail account I made 12 years ago...don't think I'll ever change

My main is from January of 1998 it looks like and I do have a gmail account that I got awhile ago also but I rarely use it and it's mainly used now as google requires you to have one for certain stuff now like youtube.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I think I see equal numbers of hotmail, yahoo and gmail.

 

[vi edit]

Gmail is king and I actually got firstnamelastname@gmail.com because I am l33t. It tells people a story about my level of bossiness.

I got a firstinitiallastname@hotmail.com

And my last name is *very* common in Ireland...which is why I get daily emails from Irish websites and password resets thinking I'm somebody else.

:|

 

[Gooberlx2]

My job is fully dropping our in-house email system for gmail and dropping MS Office for Google Docs. We now have our own domain set up through google so the email uses gmail but the domain name is still ours. We are basically eliminating the need for any servers or network admins. Anyone with half a brain can administer a google apps domain. Apparently this solution is becoming really popular, a lot of companies are going this route to save a buck.

I'll laugh my ass off if they pull the rug out from under all of these companies trying to save money and start charging for their google apps domains once a ton of people have converted over.

I've used google apps with my personal domain since it was released. firstname@lastname.net.

I don't get the bolded part though. Google does charge businesses for the service, always has. It certainly also depends on the business size. There's a point where it's cheaper having an exchange server, storage and admin vs paying $50 annually per employee mailbox.

If I owned a small business, I'd definitely go with google apps.

 

[rh71]

have had hotmail since college back in the mid 90s so it's tough to switch from that but my main account is gmail since it's SO much easier to use (ajax & keyboard shortcuts win). So I basically have to check 2 accounts everyday. I also had a Yahoo way back when but the lack of a good spam filter killed them.

I also have rh71.com email addresses, but why would I keep using that instead of something as reliable and easy-to-remember as gmail?

 

[DesiPower]

yahoo's my mail, secondary is Hotmail, gmail and netscape are junk mail accounts used for facebook and twitter and stuff.

 

[dud]

It seems like any email I get where I'm one of the many on the list, everyone is using gmail (including myself). You probably look weird without a gmail account. Definitely the case in the 20s and 30s crowd.

Definitely not. I know of only one (1) person who uses their Gmail account exclusively. I have a Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail account and Gmail comes in a distant 3rd.

 

[Fayd]

i have my firstname@lastname.org.

 

[postmortemIA]

I have firsletteroffirstnamelastname@gmail.com

 

[SparkyJJO]

I switched from hotmail to gmail years ago when it was still on invite-only because I was sick and tired of the crappy ads on hotmail that took forever to load on dialup, and the larger inbox (1GB at the time) was nice too.

I tried a yahoo account before my hotmail, but before I even got to use it I started getting spam in there. Screw that. I haven't used it for anything but crap since.

 

[DaveJ]

I have firsletteroffirstnamelastname@gmail.com

So do I, and it's a serious pain in the ass because every other idiot either named Dave <mylastname> or D-something <mylastname> registers for stuff using my Gmail address, so I get all kinds of shit. Gmail is fucking useless unless you've got an obscure address.

 

[FoBoT]

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I use contact@firstname.me

Also have firstname.middleinitial.last@gmail.com and firstname.middleinitial.last@live.com. GMail used to be the superior solution (think I started using around 2004) but I honestly prefer the Windows Live web interface in its current incarnation. It's cleaner, more visually appealing and I don't find myself missing any particular feature.

 

[zinfamous]

Gmail is king and I actually got firstnamelastname@gmail.com because I am l33t. It tells people a story about my level of bossiness.

same. no dots in the middle, neither. fuck yeah

 

[Triumph]

My job is fully dropping our in-house email system for gmail and dropping MS Office for Google Docs. We now have our own domain set up through google so the email uses gmail but the domain name is still ours. We are basically eliminating the need for any servers or network admins. Anyone with half a brain can administer a google apps domain. Apparently this solution is becoming really popular, a lot of companies are going this route to save a buck.

I'll laugh my ass off if they pull the rug out from under all of these companies trying to save money and start charging for their google apps domains once a ton of people have converted over.

Honest question, who owns that huge email database? Google can scour your emails and use the intel to sell you things, if you have a personal account with them. If feds want to investigate the emails (sans warrant), Google will turn them right over. These are things that bother me about having my personal emails located on a "free" website.

I also hate that I can't log into my VT account (now managed by Google) and Youtube at the same time, because they're different accounts. For various privacy reasons I don't want them all linked together. But it makes browsing annoying.

 

[Wyndru]

I don't get the bolded part though. Google does charge businesses for the service, always has. It certainly also depends on the business size. There's a point where it's cheaper having an exchange server, storage and admin vs paying $50 annually per employee mailbox.

If I owned a small business, I'd definitely go with google apps.

I'm in education, I guess it's free for edu domains, I didn't realize this was different than business domains.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/

We just hit 6000 users the other day, and we haven't paid a cent (other than our yearly domain registration for godaddy). I noticed on their "business" domain registration page that over 10 users you need to start paying. We did find out that in order to archive (state requirement to have 7 years of archival) we will need to pay about $10 an account.

Honest question, who owns that huge email database? Google can scour your emails and use the intel to sell you things, if you have a personal account with them. If feds want to investigate the emails (sans warrant), Google will turn them right over. These are things that bother me about having my personal emails located on a "free" website.

That is definitely a concern that we make our faculty and staff aware of, but it's just the way it is when you want have an outside organization host anything. No one is really worried about it at our school district though...It's a place of employment, so hopefully people are smart enough not to do anything in their email that would justify the government getting involved.

 

[Ns1]

With the 20-40 crowd that I'm in, gmail is predominant.