The End Of An Era At Yahoo

Many years ago as a young (er) non tech person I needed to get a business started and needed to have a web presence. I also did not have a lot of cash.

I had had a Yahoo! account for years because they were one of the first with a decent email account.

So when the time came I bought my first domain with them as well as one of their hosting packages which seemed to have all the things I needed.

It took me a while to understand that Yahoo had pretty solid email (standard and private) but that their hosting solutions were very user unfriendly, did not offer things like cpanel, had convuluted php and mysql configurations that were not according to user friendly industry standards (like did not support permalinks without an index.php in WordPress) etc.

But the worst thing of all was that their customer / technical support was worse than useless. It took hours to reach somebody on the phone and after one automated email response which never solved your problem you would not get another – and thus start the process again.

Then they bumped – without a reasonable notice period, my domain price (I now own several) from about 10 bucks to more than 30.

So Yahoo, I used to love you, but now I hate you.

Today I just moved my last domain and am waiting for you to give free pop access in your email accounts in a month or so then I will cancel my last premium service.

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CANCELLATION CONFIRMED Please print this email for your records. Dear HAPPY EX CUSTOMER, This message confirms that you have successfully canceled your plan. Please make careful note of the following. Yahoo! will not renew your domain name when it expires. You can no longer access your Yahoo! control panel tools. Your Private Domain Registration service (if applicable) has been deactivated. Do you plan to transfer your domain to another company? You can transfer your domain to any company that supports domain management. Learn how. Please remember that you will not receive a refund for fees associated with your plan (see our terms of service for details). We’re sorry you decided to cancel your service and hope you will consider Yahoo! again in the future. Yahoo! ID: XXXXXX Plan: Domains Order date: XXXXXX Cancel date: XXXXXX Domain name: XXXXXXXX Need Help? Still have questions about your cancellation? Give our dedicated team a call at 866-858-8106, or find answers in our help center. Best regards, The Yahoo! Small Business team