Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail Are Down, Reminding Everyone That They Still Exist.
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you: you just read a headline in 2026 about Yahoo! Despite losing ground to other search engines and email companies like Google, Yahoo! still exists. In fact, according to one statistic, Yahoo! Mail still has 225 million daily active users . That’s a far cry from Gmail’s 1.8 billion active users , but far better than AOL’s eight million users. (Yes, AOL still exists and is effectively part of Yahoo!—at least until its sale to Bending Spoons is finalized.)
But I’m not here to discuss Yahoo! and AOL’s market share. Instead, I want to sound the alarm for millions of Yahoo! and, by extension, AOL users: this morning, services were down. If you tried to search the web on Yahoo!, check your Yahoo! mail, or even your AOL mail, you received the following error message: “Edge: Too Many Requests.”I first discovered the outage through Downdetector , owned by Lifehacker’s parent company, Ziff Davis, which received tens of thousands of messages from users before the service went down by 10:30 AM ET. The sites have since returned to service.
At the time of writing, the official cause of the Yahoo! outage is unknown, but as with most such issues, the company quickly resolved the issues. Last week, X experienced an outage , and the service was back up soon after. Of course, that outage was dwarfed by Verizon’s massive outage , which Verizon claimed was merely a “software issue.” However, there’s a big difference between a few websites going down and a nationwide cellular network outage, so it’s no surprise that Yahoo! and AOL are back up and running this morning. Millions of users who rely on these services can now use them, and the rest can forget about them again.