Yahoo to drop www. ID's

[musicmania]

I heard through the grapevine yahoo is planning to drop the ability to make www. ID's on yahoo.. And isn't planning on telling anyone as it will cause a surge in randoms making those type ID's.. I wondering if anyone here or knows anything concrete.. Maybe someone's already heard of this an found it to be rubbish, either way.. I'd like to know

[steve]

i dont blame yahoo for dropping the support because people should not be promoting their own websites on Yahoo Messenger with a www. or similar names. This rumour is probably true.

[Amy_Young]

I doubt they will drop support but just stop allowing them to be made.

If yahoo! could just as easily drop support for one type of ID they would have done so years ago.

Does messenger even render id's and nicks with urls? i don't think it does but most other clients do...been a while since i checked.

[musicmania]

When yahoo gave you the ability to create a dot ID, people came out in droves to create their web site's id.

i.e. www.yahoostuff_com

Only problem is that you are only allowed ONE dot. So anything else will have to be another character.

As time goes on, and we no longer even need to type www in the address bar and we can now just type

yahoostuff.com

it wouldn't really do yahoo any good to just stop the ability to make www names. I know only certain characters can be made after the dot, but you can add a variety of smilies, etc.

[crystal]

Yeah, it seems with the aid of an old account, and creating a new profile starting with www. - you can have an ID like > www . and . com . tw <Without the spaces. I'm thinking if this catches on the rumor will take effect.. On another note, for the last couple months I've been unable to post a link to my blog in chat, I've noticed a couple other sites being 'filtered' 2. You see the link you've posted.. but no1 else does, a way around this(other than url shorteners) is to change the colour of the dots, by making the colour of the dots in my link green, my link becomes visible to everyone, my link as normal is only visible to me It seems they are actively blocking some links/sites, and not others..