Yahoo users can start requesting forgotten Yahoo usernames as the company continues to clear out inactive users from its network. July 15, 2013 2:02 PM PDT Yahoo officially opened a request site for inactive usernames, on Monday, so people can start claiming any IDs that have been inactive for more than year. The company said last month that it was doing some more cleaning on its site by closing inactive accounts. In order to save IDs from extinction, users had to simply log in before Monday. To request a name, users need to submit their top five choices to a wishlist page. Yahoo will left you know in mid-August which ID is available and will send you a link so you can claim the ID. Do you trust Yahoo to recycle your username and protect your data? Yahoo also emphasized that they were taking security seriously and outlined in blog post the company's approach to making the switch without mixing up access to personal information. If a user decides to use their new email address to communicate with a site that already has that e-mail on file, which Yahoo said is "a very small percentage of the accounts that we will be recycling," Yahoo said it has a plan in place to help verify the account by adding a date-specific marker, so a site like Facebook won't accidentally connect an email ID's new owner to the old owner's account. "We encourage anyone using e-mail to communicate with their users, especially for e-commerce and recovering their accounts, to adopt this measure to ensure the security of their users," the blog post reads.
Yahoo users can start requesting forgotten Yahoo usernames as the company continues to clear out inactive users from its network.
Yahoo officially opened a request site for inactive usernames, on Monday, so people can start claiming any IDs that have been inactive for more than year.
The company said last month that it was doing some more cleaning on its site by closing inactive accounts. In order to save IDs from extinction, users had to simply log in before Monday.
To request a name, users need to submit their top five choices to a wishlist page. Yahoo will left you know in mid-August which ID is available and will send you a link so you can claim the ID.
Do you trust Yahoo to recycle your username and protect your data?
Yahoo also emphasized that they were taking security seriously and outlined in blog post the company's approach to making the switch without mixing up access to personal information.
If a user decides to use their new email address to communicate with a site that already has that e-mail on file, which Yahoo said is "a very small percentage of the accounts that we will be recycling," Yahoo said it has a plan in place to help verify the account by adding a date-specific marker, so a site like Facebook won't accidentally connect an email ID's new owner to the old owner's account.
"We encourage anyone using e-mail to communicate with their users, especially for e-commerce and recovering their accounts, to adopt this measure to ensure the security of their users," the blog post reads.
