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Yahoo! allows “.” in email addresses

yahooYahoo! Mail now offers users the option of a second email address, which may contain a “.” (full stop or period).

Apparently the new addresses are being snapped up quickly. One blogger reports that his firstname.secondname@yahoo.com address was already taken. So hurry over if you are a Yahoo! Mail user.

Mac users with Yahoo! Mail accounts are well catered for. YMail offers Yahoo-specific menubar notification and you can download your Yahoo emails into Mail.app with either MacFreePOPs or MailForward.

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2 Responses to “Yahoo! allows “.” in email addresses”

  1. Alistair Phillips says:
    January 6th, 2006 at 11:57 pm

    Thanks for that tip! Managed to get my firstname.surname@yahoo.com thanks to you :)

  2. sjk says:
    January 8th, 2006 at 9:12 am

    For some reason I haven’t been able to create a new Yahoo! account (for Flickr migration) in Safari or Camino. Same problem trying to change my eBay username to include a dot. No trouble creating a dotted e-mail address for Gmail, though. Unsolved mystery.

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