Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail Are Down, Reminding Everyone They Still Exist
Your eyes are not deceiving you: you have just read a headline in the year of our Lord 2026 on Yahoo! Despite losing to other search engines and email companies like Google, Yahoo! is still a thing. In fact, one statistic states that Yahoo! As of today, Mail still has 225 million daily active users. That’s a far cry from Gmail’s 1.8 billion daily active users, but much better than AOL’s eight million users. (Yes, AOL still exists and is actually part of Yahoo!, at least until its sale to Bending Spoons is finalized).
But I’m not here to talk about Yahoo! and AOL’s market share. Instead, I’m here to sound the alarm to the millions of people who use Yahoo! and, by extension, AOL: services were down this morning. If you’ve tried searching for something on Yahoo! on the web or check your Yahoo! Mail, or even your AOL Mail, you will find the following error message: “Edge: too many requests”. I first spotted the outage via Downdetector, owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis, which had tens of thousands of user reports, before dropping at 10:30 a.m. ET. The sites have since been back online.
What do you think of it so far?
There is no official reason for the Yahoo! outage. as of this article, but, like most of these outages, the company resolved the issues fairly quickly. Last week, X experienced an outage and came back online shortly after. Of course, this outage was overshadowed by the massive Verizon outage, which Verizon claimed was simply a “software issue.” There’s a big difference between a series of broken websites and a nationwide cellular network, though, so it’s no surprise that Yahoo! and AOL were both back online this morning. The millions of users who rely on these services now get them back, while the rest of us can forget about them again.
