Do you have a dormant Yahoo account that has been gathering dust and spam messages for several years? Time to use it or lose it.

Yahoo announced that starting next month, it will deactivate accounts that have not been used in over a year, allowing people to snap up those once-claimed usernames. "We want to give our loyal users and new folks the opportunity to sign up for the Yahoo ID they've always wanted," Jay Rossiter, Yahoo's senior vice president of platforms, said in a blog post.

The great Yahoo account purge begins on July 15, so if you have an account from yesteryear that's inactive but holds a certainly sentimentality, log in before then.

Yahoo said users will have the opportunity to request a username (albert@yahoo.com vs albert9330399@yahoo.com, for example), but did not elaborate on how that might happen. "In mid August, users who staked a claim on certain IDs can come to Yahoo to discover which one they got," Rossiter said.

The announcement comes about a week after the shutdown of Yahoo Mail Classic, making way for the new version of Mail, which launched six months ago.

The Web giant announced the discontinuation in April, warning users that beginning June 3, Yahoo Mail Classic and other versions of the Web-based mail services would no longer be available.

CEO Marissa Mayer has been doing some housecleaning since assuming the top job at Yahoo, from releasing a new weather app and revamping the homepage to making billion-dollar acquisitions like Tumblr and overhauling Flickr.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/06/12/yahoo-dormant-accounts/2417387/

Ok av heard. Lemme rush and check my old box...hmm wats d pwd again?

Time to request for a new username.

That will be good.

Yahoo has frustrated millions of user, thank thee for perfect Gmail.

Gmail all the way...............

CustomeR renewal, I guess