Last month, Yahoo announced an username recycling program designed to retire some of its decades worth of inactive accounts so that new, active users might be able to be claim BobbyH@yahoo.com rather than settling for a less comprehensible Bobby_H_From_Chicago1978@yahoo.com.
As promised, the company has sent messages to dormant accounts (those which have not logged-in to any Yahoo products in the previous 12 months) to confirm their inactiveness. Those who did not respond have had their usernames thrown into a pool of available handles. New users in search of a simpler username can put their top five picks for desired username at wishlist.yahoo.com.
According to a post on Yahoo's official tumblr (that still sounds weird!), users will receive an email sometime in "mid-August" letting them know notifying them if they were the first in line to claim an available username along with a link to claim it within 48 hours.
I put in my bid for "bradpitt," "barackobama," "whitehouse," "evan," and "marissamayerceo," this morning. Wish me luck!
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