Comments on: Yahoo!stopping Irish signups

By: Yvonne Young

Yvonne Young — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:01:04 +0000

It’s not just Ireland! I live in Portsmouth in England, and they won’t validate my very real postcode either.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:50:57 +0000

Oh, and East Timor has been independent since 2002, but a lot of organisations still haven’t updated their records, even though it’s now the world’s third newest country after Kosovo and Montenegro. Some of the offenders are Irish, sorry to say.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:47:31 +0000

Eoin, Dublin has postal districts, not postcodes.

I understand that Yahoo! has done the same for New Zealand - you get a yahoo.com.au instead of yahoo.co.nz, in spite of the fact that NZ has never even been part of Australia - it decided against joining it in the first place. It’s only just got postcodes though.

By: chook

chook — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:15:21 +0000

Most forms accept ***** as postcode. I think that’s what I used for yahoo/flickr.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:46:53 +0000

Thanks Audrey,
quick fix for a very irritating problem.

By: keith kearney

keith kearney — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:40:34 +0000

for the postcode put 90210 and your home country as united states then it will set u up on it… go to your account settings and change yourself back to being proud to be irish!! thanks..

By: eoin

eoin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:25:39 +0000

If you’re setting up a yahoo account the postal code does not work with any good post codes from Ireland, which DOES have by the way, just Dublin though 1-24. Nothing works though!! Yahoo Dumb wits!! Anyway I changed my country to IRAQ and it worked! However my account is .ie!!! weird…

By: Lego

Lego — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:36:02 +0000

Thanks Audrey Drumm. Just a dash - will do for postcode.

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:25:13 +0000

Just type a full stop, that’ll work. I had an old Yahoo ID but I’ve forgotten the password and they couldn’t mail it to me either. Pathetic.

By: Doville

Doville — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:08:55 +0000

Hi folks! Thnks a lot Slavco for smart advise! I was strugling the same way- no chance to register without postcode, even though I’ve tried many options. Finally did as you’ve recommended with UK residence first and it was accepted! I just wonder why is everything upside down in Ireland- no matter what you do:))?

By: Slavco

Slavco — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:04:26 +0000

Hi again
I have forgot.
In field postal code please type “not available”.

Good luck !

By: Slavco

Slavco — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:02:22 +0000

Hi
I asked yahoo how to do it and they sent me that link. I have tried and its work. So everybody who want sign up at yahoo.ie, enjoy !
http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/eval_register?.intl=ie&new=1&.done=&;

By: Brian Horgan

Brian Horgan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:22:54 +0000

Thank you Audrey Drumm! By far the best/quickest solution, without having to select country of residence as UK/US first. I had tried literally everything, and the “Yahoo Answers” page contains a WRONG answer which doesn’t help matters.

By: Slavco

Slavco — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:04:52 +0000

Hi
There is one way to register your email on yahoo.ie
I got it done 5 minutes ago.
First choice content yahoo.ie than all details and than the country as UK and put any UK postal code, i e. TR14 8SR.
If you finish create account go to my account and click edit profile or something like that and change country to Ireland and postal code “not exist”. And enjoy your yahoo.ie email

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:43:59 +0000

On the Flickr registration page, in the top right hand corner is the line “I prefer content from”, with an attached drop down list, choose Yahoo!Ireland and it will accept “Dublin 4″ as postal code.

By: John Shortland

John Shortland — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:04:57 +0000

tried N/A but it wouldnt work but thanks Audrey Drumm - worked perfectly

By: Audrey Drumm

Audrey Drumm — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:22:06 +0000

I had the same problem trying to create an Irish yahoo mail account. Finally, after trying n/a, null, *** and all the usual, a dash worked. So just enter - for your Irish post code.

By: spark

spark — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:33:10 +0000

I just spent 15 minuts trying to create a flickr account, and sure enough, almost three months later, they still haven’t fixed this problem.

By: Lyndsey

Lyndsey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:10:56 +0000

Nah none of those post codes codes worked for carl nash bike insurance annoying…

By: Desenie

Desenie — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:07:23 +0000

There’s a lot of problems with Flickr. I heard that Flickr images are currently blocked in China, Germany, UAE…