Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail Are Down, Reminding Everyone They Still Exist

Your eyes don't deceive you: You did just read a headline in the year of our lord 2026 about Yahoo! Despite losing out to other search engine and email companies like Google, Yahoo! is very much still a thing. In fact, one statistic claims Yahoo! Mail still has 225 million daily active users to this day. That's a ways off from Gmail's 1.8 billion daily active users, but way better than AOL's eight million users. (Yes, AOL is still a thing, and is actually a part of Yahoo!—at least until its sale to Bending Spoons goes through).

But I'm not here to talk about Yahoo! and AOL's marketshare. Instead, I'm here to sound the alarms to the millions of people that use Yahoo!, and, by extension, AOL: The services are currently down. If you try to search the web for something on Yahoo!, or check your Yahoo! Mail, or even your AOL Mail, you'll find the following error message: "Edge: Too Many Requests." I first spotted the outage via Downdetector, owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis, which has seen nearly 9,000 user reports as of 9:50 a.m. ET.

There's no official reason for the outage from Yahoo! as of this article, but, like most of these outages, there's no doubt a fix in the works as you read this. Last week, X had an outage, and it came back online before long. Of course, that 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 web sites going down and a nationwide cell network, however, so I expected Yahoo! and AOL alike will both be back online sometime this morning. Soon enough, the millions of users who rely on these services will have them back, while the rest of us can forget about them all over again.