What happens to the free yahoo,com email accounts?
If Verizon is smart (big crapshoot there), they won't change a thing, except maybe the corporate name.
Lots of familiar brands are now owned by bigger companies. Most of those companies were smart enough to leave the branding and essential products of their acquisitions alone.
If it is anything like the Pacific Bell/SBCglobal/at&t merger/renames, you will keep your old e-mail name with new users getting the “Altaba.com” domain. Web mail look and download functionality may change under Verizon tho..
Probably nothing, if they know what's good for them.
E.g., I've had a Hotmail account since the previous millennium. It's my throw-away email address, which I give out when signing up for web services, etc., that don't matter (to me). It has over 75,000 emails in its Inbox, 99.99% have not been read and never will be.
Hotmail was launched on 4 July 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the first web-based email services. They invested $300k. It ran on Linux, naturally.
In 1999, they sold it to Microsoft for $400m.
Of course, the fact that it was powered by Linux was an embarrassment to its new owner. But, over time, that problem was fixed, and the property was folded into MSFT's online Outlook platform.
But my @hotmail.com email address still works.
And I don't care that I'm wasting Microsoft's iron oxide storing my spam!