timtowle

For the last couple of years I’ve been paying Yahoo to host my timto.com email. It was a good service, and I never had any problems. For the email and Web Site it cost me $11 per month – which after experimenting with various other services seemed like a good deal because it worked. The only thing that disgruntled me was that I wasn’t able to use the new Yahoo! mail interface that they developed from their Oddpost acquisition.

Last week, though I saw that they were opening up the Google Apps for your domain program to a wider beta and I signed up, transferred my domain and closed down my Yahoo! paying account. I’m really impressed with Gmail, I played around with it when it came out but felt I didn’t need to change, but now the price is right.

Closing thought – between me and my partner, Yahoo! just lost over $200 dollars of revenue per year. I wonder how many other people are transferring their paid email accounts to Gmail?