What Business Owners Should Know About The Yahoo Name Change

If you are a Yahoo small business customer, you’ve probably received a notification announcing that Yahoo will be changing its name to Luminate, effective November 8th, 2015. They are trying to make the change as seamless as possible for their customers. If you have a Domain or have purchased any other services through Yahoo, you may want to reference their checklist to determine if there is anything you need to do to prevent a disruption of service.

Links:

Checklist: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN26784.html

Q&A: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-small-business/SLN26667.html?impressions=true

**********Update 11/7/15:

I received an automatic e-mail from Yahoo today. Their system update is taking place from 11/14 at 6:00pm PT until 11/15 at 6:00pm PT. They’ve indicated that business websites shouldn’t experience downtime, but the control panel will be inaccessible. In addition, they’ve decided to change their name to Aabaco Small Business, instead of Luminate. See partial excerpt from Yahoo below.

“On November 15th, we will officially change our name to Aabaco Small Business. Yes, we did tell you that our new name was going to be Luminate. We think Luminate is a great name, but we think it’s an even better idea to have a name that’s better aligned with our soon-to-be parent company, Aabaco Holdings.”