Many Dutch people use mail 'dead' provider

- In less than eight percent of Dutch households are still using an email address from an Internet service that no longer exists, such as @Home, Zonnet, Het Net and Casema. According to research from Broadband Shop among more than 10,000 Dutch.

The people who use these addresses, seem to find it a barrier to switching to another provider. This is mainly due to the fact that these addresses also be used for important things like DigiD and utilities.

The e-mail domains that many of these households still used as the primary address, read like a history of the Internet. Zonnet. namely, Planet. namely, Quicknet. nl and even Tiscali. viz. 'The latter company took in 2000 the illustrious World Online about,' says Van Wezel, CEO of Broadband Shop. 'Then it was itself acquired in 2007 by KPN, which it renamed Telfort. '
  
    
     
      
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Among the rest of the Dutch Outlook (formerly Hotmail) is the most popular e-mail service (46 percent), followed by Gmail (33 percent). It is remarkable that as many as ten percent used an email address with your own domain name or work address.