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#322636 6-Sep-2025 17:21

I was checking our database today, and found the following emails:

4,222 xtra.co.nz
711 ihug.co.nz
600 paradise.net.nz
210 xnet.co.nz
109 snap.net.nz

Interestingly, some active users still have these inactive emails (except for xtra, which still exists but I am not sure how many bother paying for it).

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#3412003 6-Sep-2025 17:31

OMG ihug and paradise have been offline for years

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#3412014 6-Sep-2025 17:49

I support a lot of retirees, probably because I am just about there myself, Xtra is like a thing these folk cannot seem to divorce themselves from and it ties them to Spark accounts, but they just accept it as though that's how life works, grrrrre

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#3412032 6-Sep-2025 18:20

cyril7:

I support a lot of retirees, probably because I am just about there myself, Xtra is like a thing these folk cannot seem to divorce themselves from and it ties them to Spark accounts, but they just accept it as though that's how life works, grrrrre

Cyril

I’m retired and pay for xtra. Because I was amongst their earliest accounts I got my initials as my address - as in xxx@xtra.co.nz

Probably silly but I’m attached to it and want to keep it. And I guess it partly keeps me tied to Spark.

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#3412080 6-Sep-2025 21:52

eracode:

I’m retired and pay for xtra. Because I was amongst their earliest accounts I got my initials as my address - as in xxx@xtra.co.nz

I knew someone whose user portion of her email address was nothing more than her first initial.

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#3412104 7-Sep-2025 04:43

eracode:

cyril7:

I support a lot of retirees, probably because I am just about there myself, Xtra is like a thing these folk cannot seem to divorce themselves from and it ties them to Spark accounts, but they just accept it as though that's how life works, grrrrre

Cyril

I’m retired and pay for xtra. Because I was amongst their earliest accounts I got my initials as my address - as in xxx@xtra.co.nz

Probably silly but I’m attached to it and want to keep it. And I guess it partly keeps me tied to Spark.

@eracode

I was like you, hanging on to my xtra address from good old Telcom days and later only paying for the email subscription as I switched to another broadband provider
Ever since they jacked up the email subscription I have now closed the account and moved all my email to yahoo.

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#3412148 7-Sep-2025 10:52

Behodar:

I knew someone whose user portion of her email address was nothing more than her first initial.

if you set up your own domain, you can have whatever you like in front of the @

i have firstname@lastnames.org

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#3412152 7-Sep-2025 11:14

Any registered under the below domains?

vodafone.co.nz vodafone.com vodafone.net.nz

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#3412154 7-Sep-2025 11:21

vodafone.co.nz 221
vodafone.com 128
vodafone.net.nz 52
telecom.co.nz 158

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#3412170 7-Sep-2025 13:41

Out of curiosity; How many use email relays/masks? E.g. Firefox relay with @mozmail.com .

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#3412175 7-Sep-2025 14:24

Just one on that sub-domain.

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#3412176 7-Sep-2025 14:28

Why would snap.net.nz be inactive? they ran a promotion like orcon.net.nz once for free email for life and there (although agreed subjectively not a good idea) are many Southnet Snap and many other address's linked to their acquisitions still in use.. lots are probably just redirects now.

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#3412179 7-Sep-2025 14:36

I thought the Snap emails were already gone. But if they are alive, all the better for the users. I put them in the same basked as Xtra - the telcos aren'r really in the email business and I don't think the service has the features and quality of other cloud-based services.

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#3412189 7-Sep-2025 16:19

muppetz.com for lyfe

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#3413492 10-Sep-2025 17:40

Yes, snap.net.nz is still definitely alive.

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#3424865 14-Oct-2025 13:27

I'm trying to update my email address in my profile. I'm supplying my current password. But it consistently fail saying "I can't do that, Dave".

How can I update my email address? I'm a subscriber and a trusted user....for almost 20 years (next March). 😎

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