Legacy @aol.com and migrated @verizon.net addresses have one of the highest bounce and spam-trap conversion rates on the web. Verify any AOL or Verizon address before your next campaign.
aol.com, aim.com, verizon.net, netscape.net & cs.com
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Primary MX: mx-aol.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net
When Verizon shut down its consumer email service, active @verizon.net accounts were migrated to AOL Mail infrastructure (mx-aol.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net), while millions of unmigrated @verizon.net addresses became permanent hard bounces.
Like Yahoo, AOL deactivates accounts after 12 months of inactivity. Mailing unverified @aol.com or @verizon.net lists older than 6 months triggers immediate Yahoo/AOL Postmaster throttling.
Because AOL and Yahoo share inbound MTA clusters (yahoodns.net), hard bounces on old @aol.com or @verizon.net addresses directly damage your inbox placement across all @yahoo.com recipients too.
Only @verizon.net addresses whose owners actively migrated them to AOL Mail and continue logging in at least once every 12 months still work. The majority of legacy @verizon.net addresses now hard-bounce, making pre-send SMTP verification essential.
AOL Mail and Yahoo Mail operate on the unified Yahoo Inc. MTA platform (mx-aol.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net). High bounce rates on @aol.com or @verizon.net trigger reputation blocks across both AOL and Yahoo.
Yes. Our pre-DNS typo detector immediately flags @alo.com, @aoll.com, and @verzon.net and suggests the corrected domain.