All Yahoo services went down on Wednesday in Romania, with hundreds of complaints registered on websites specialized in detecting such problems. According to international media, such blockages were also recorded overseas.
In Romania, the problems were reported by hundreds of users from the following cities marked in the map below, according to downdetector.ro data
Users of Yahoo Mail and AOL email services were hit by a widespread outage on Wednesday, January 21, with users across America reporting that their emails were not working. The outage also affected the regular websites of Yahoo and AOL.
On Wednesday, when users tried to log into their email services, instead of receiving emails, they were greeted with a message that said “Edge: Too many requests.” This existed for several browsers, according to international media.
The Down Detector website reported a sudden spike in reports of Yahoo Mail and AOL email services being unavailable around 9:30 AM ET on Wednesday, January 21st. By that time, email services had been working properly for months.
Yahoo Mail was launched in October 1997 after Yahoo acquired the RocketMail webmail service from Four11 and quickly became a major competitor to Hotmail in the email market. It’s surprising that Yahoo Mail and AOL email services are still among the most popular email services on the planet.
Although it lost ground to other search engine and email companies such as Google, Yahoo! Mail still has 225 million daily active users to this day. That’s far from Gmail’s 1.8 billion daily active users, but much better than AOL’s eight million users.
As of this writing, Yahoo’s services are back up and running, with no official explanation given for the reason for the outages.
