Yahoo is allowing people to place claims on inactive email addresses that are being given a second life. The opportunity to request the identifications began Monday and will extend through Aug. 7. Up to five different names can be submitted at the Yahoo's Wish List site.
Yahoo says a substantial number of old email IDs are being made available, but isn't providing specifics. All the deactivated accounts haven't been used in at least a year. The dormant email IDs are being released a month after the Sunnyvale, Calif., company notified users that they would have 30 days to log into an inactive account if they wanted to keep it.
People awarded the rights to the recycled email addresses will have a 48-hour period to activate the accounts beginning Aug. 15. Yahoo is hoping the inactive IDs will be claimed by people who will use them to log into its website and discover a series of changes to its email, home page and other services that have been made since Marissa Mayer became the company's CEO a year ago.
wish list site: https://wishlist.yahoo.com/
Source: Yahoo accepting requests for inactive email IDs - NBC News.com
Yahoo says a substantial number of old email IDs are being made available, but isn't providing specifics. All the deactivated accounts haven't been used in at least a year. The dormant email IDs are being released a month after the Sunnyvale, Calif., company notified users that they would have 30 days to log into an inactive account if they wanted to keep it.
People awarded the rights to the recycled email addresses will have a 48-hour period to activate the accounts beginning Aug. 15. Yahoo is hoping the inactive IDs will be claimed by people who will use them to log into its website and discover a series of changes to its email, home page and other services that have been made since Marissa Mayer became the company's CEO a year ago.
wish list site: https://wishlist.yahoo.com/
Source: Yahoo accepting requests for inactive email IDs - NBC News.com
