states area served worldwide except german speaking countries industry internet parent united internet website www.mail.com type of site webmail provider advertising yes registration yes available in english spanish french russian portuguese romanian launched 1995 ; 21 years ago 1995 mail.com is a web portal and web based email service provider owned by the german internet company united internet . it offers news articles and videos and a free webmail application with unlimited storage . 1 contents 1 features 1.1 email 1.2 domains 1.3 storage 1.4 organizer 1.5 mobile clients 2 history 3 references 4 external links features edit mail.com offers a free advertising supported email service with unlimited storage for emails choice of over 200 domains online file storage collecting of emails from other accounts which is now a paid for service organizer facebook integration and spam and virus protection . 2 mail.com reserves the right to cancel a domain name for even premium pay accounts whenever they decide to do so . 3 email users that have had the domain of user soon.com were abruptly notified that their email account is being terminated and there was nothing they can do about it . 3 email edit mail.com features unlimited storage and attachments of up to 50mb . in addition to the address chosen at sign up users can create up to 9 additional aliases for a maximum total of 10 addresses one of which the user chooses as default . all 10 user email addresses deliver to the default user email in box so only one login is required . users could configure their mail.com account to collect their emails from other accounts and servers . this service is still free . 4 domains edit users can choose from more than 200 domains for their personal email address including geographical locations professions beliefs and interests such as europe.com consultant.com accountant.com muslim.com brew meister.com and catlover.com . 5 storage edit mail.com offers its users unlimited storage for emails as well as 2 gb online file storage . 4 organizer edit the organizer lets the user schedule tasks and events . similar to desktop organizer applications the user can set reminders invite guests and import and export data to and from the . ics and . csv formats . mobile clients edit mail.com offers applications for android and ios . history edit mail.com was originally formed in 1995 as vanity mail services corporate name globecomm inc. 6 by gerald gorman an investment banker at donaldson lufkin & jenrette and gary millin a harvard business school student at the time . 7 they spent a majority of gorman s wealth 7 to register and promote a total of 544 domains and later began to buy domain names from other companies . at one time the company owned more than 1 200 domains on speculation including world.com usa.com india.com europe.com asia.com doctor.com kosher.com and lawyer.com . 8 to raise money to pay the yearly domain registration fees they offered vanity domain email services to the public 9 from the domains they owned under the brand name iname 9 and later began hosting mail services on behalf of the owners of other domains and for internet service providers . the speculation was often successful . in 1999 the company sold kosher.com london.com and england.com for 2 million . 10 by 1999 the company had raised venture financing from primus capital funds and sycamore ventures and changed its name to mail.com . it conducted an initial public offering in june 1999 . 11 by 2000 it was supporting 14.6 million email accounts mostly for free and remained unprofitable . 9 it sold the mail.com domain and consumer email services division to net2phone 12 changed its name to easylink and changed its business operations to focus on managed file transfer services in april 2001 after acquiring swift telecommunications which in turn had spun off the easylink business unit from at & t. 13 14 15 in 2004 jay penske son of automobile racing figure roger penske joined and became ceo of velocity services an affinity marketing and internet services company operating as interactive digital publishing group . 16 the company acquired the mail.com domain and re launched it as a new service in 2007 . 17 parent company mail.com media went on to acquire content websites such as deadline.com movieline and the boy genius report . in september 2010 mail.com media sold mail.com to united internet which intended to integrate it into gmx mail . while existing accounts could be accessed from anywhere users accessing the site from german speaking countries could no longer sign up and were instead invited to use united internet s gmx services geared to those markets gmx.de gmx.at gmx.ch . at the beginning of september 2013 mail.com e mailed all account holders of madrid.com london.com and tokyo.com addresses stating that they would no longer be able to send or receive e mail from 28 september 2013 . references edit http techcrunch.com 2010 09 20 mail com media https www.facebook.com mail.com a b https www.mail.com int company terms a b https www.mail.com mail https www.mail.com email easylink services corp. to appear on mn1.com . m2 communications press release . 1996 09 06 . a b andrea peterson 1999 02 11 . mail.com intends to profit by giving away its product . wall street journal . mail.com s busy delivery schedule . business week . 2000 02 07 . a b c michael bociurkiw 2000 06 02 . mail.com shouldn t stay master of its domains . forbes . stephanie gruner 1999 06 17 . european firms pay big money to obtain . com domain names . wall street journal . larry barrett 1999 06 30 . mail.com surges on isp deals . cnet . gwendolyn mariano 2001 06 21 . outages delay mail.com service . cnet . mail.com to acquire swift telecommunications including at & t s easylink . internetnews.com . 2001 02 21 . faith keenan 2001 07 04 . on the third try a dot com charm . business week . mail.com changes corporate name and identity to easylink services corporation . easylink press release . 2001 04 02 . alan shipnuck 2004 07 14 . hitting cleanup . sports illustrated . amit chowdhry 2008 10 22 . quadrangle capital wi harper group and novel tmt ventures delivers 35 million to mail.com . pulse2 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mail.com & oldid 724296973 categories internet companies of the united statescompanies established in 1995webmail navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages bahasa melayuportugu s edit links 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