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Free Yahoo username wishlist becomes paid ($1.99) watchlist

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by donretag • 13 years ago

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bruceb• 13 years ago

I wonder why they decided to do this. Is there enough interest to warrant charging?

gokulk• 13 years ago

most of the yahoo mail users I know are getting hacked and spamming links to all contacts.. looks like they are trying reduce the number of user requests they are getting (it would be pretty easy to create id's and request novel usernames multiple times).. Yahoo mail is the most insecure mail I have every used.

SpikedCola• 13 years ago

... Or you can just make an API call and find out for yourself:

Available: https://edit.yahoo.com/reg_json?AccountID=mister_popular@&Pa...

Unavailable: https://edit.yahoo.com/reg_json?AccountID=test@&PartnerName=...

Step 1: Create site offering 10-email watch list for $1.99

Step 2: ...

Step 3: Profit?

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