On April 18th, 2013, ChineseYahoo announces a notice to the users that it begins to stop serve and deletedata from today on, suggesting the users transfer their data. The announcement atthat time says, users should be registered in time and bound new Ali cloudemail mailbox, because bounding Ali cloud mailbox can automatically save thehistory e-mail of Chinese Yahoo and take the place of receiving the mails sentto Chinese Yahoo Mail until December 31, 2014. Chinese Yahoo also says that theywould not force users to register Ali cloud mailbox. Users can freely choose tomove the messages in the mailbox to the America Yahoo Mail or any other electronicmailbox. From now on, all the mails in Chinese Yahoo Mail and related accountsettings will be deleted and cannot be recovered. In fact, Chinese Yahoo Mail isonly the epitome of Chinese 'Yahoo!' brand change. According to thepart of share repurchase program signed last year between Alibaba and Yahoo, Alibabagroup received at least four years’ operating rights to run China Yahoo underthe brand of Yahoo.

2013年4月18日，中国雅虎向用户发布通知称，将于今天停止服务并删除数据，建议用户及时迁移数据。当时的公告称，用户应该及时注册并绑定新的阿里云邮箱，绑定的阿里云邮箱可以自动保存用户中国雅虎邮箱中的历史邮件，并代收取发往原中国雅虎邮箱的邮件直至2014年12月31日。中国雅虎方面也表示，不会强制用户注册阿里云邮箱，用户也可以自由选择将邮箱中的邮件迁至美国雅虎邮箱或任何其他第三方电子邮箱。今日起，原中国雅虎邮箱中的所有邮件和相关的账户设置都将被删除且无法恢复。事实上，中国雅虎邮箱只是中国“雅虎”品牌易手的缩影。按照阿里巴巴和美国雅虎去年签署股权回购计划的一部分，阿里巴巴集团获得了至少继续以“雅虎”品牌运营“中国雅虎”四年的运营权。

However, before the term expires of fouryears, Alibaba will gradually return the brand of Yahoo Mail back, and the mailcould be just the first step. There is message saying that the portal business journalistsof Chinese Yahoo are transferring position in the internal group.

不过，在四年期限到期前，阿里巴巴将逐步归还雅虎品牌，邮箱可能只是第一步。有消息称，中国雅虎门户业务的采编人员也在进行阿里集团内部转岗。