Yahoo has started sending email notifications to early bidders for their desired usernames. This follows the company's announcement in June of releasing all dormant accounts to new and existing users.
The wait is finally over and now is the time to claim your requested username from Yahoo. The Wishlist is available and the company has started sending email confirmations to the members about available usernames. Members will get only 14 days to claim the requested ID before it is recycled again.
Yahoo has decided to give consumers a chance to claim their desired usernames by releasing all inactive ones. This is the only chance to get rid of those long and complicated email addresses and go for much smaller and easy to remember ones.
In July, Yahoo invited all new and active users to claim their choice of usernames by updating the Wishlist page. Interested people were allowed to upload five usernames in order of preference and Yahoo promised to notify people by mid-August.
The company has started sending emails with a link to claim the available username from the desired five. Existing users can link the old email account with the new one while new users are redirected to a set up page asking for personal information such as first name, last name, password and primary and secondary contact telephone number.
Many users may not have received any email at all. But the internet giant has reassured them and announced Monday that a new Watchlist page has been set up, "which lets you watch up to five usernames for three years." The process remains same as earlier and Yahoo will notify and hold the username for 14 days if any one of the names becomes available. Unlike Wishlist, which was set up for free, users will have to pay $1.99 for the new Watchlist feature.
Moreover, Yahoo announced the top 3 name requests for "guys" and "ladies." David, Michael and Alex were popular among guys, while Maria, Jennifer and Jessica were favored among ladies.
"'Batman' and 'Superman' even showed up high on the list. I wish I had thought of those," Dylan Casey, Senior Director, Yahoo Platforms, said in a blog post.
