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American Online aka AOL is an American web portal and an online service provider. The company is headquartered in New York City and is marketed by Verizon Media. In the mid-1990s, AOL was one of the most renowned brands in the United States. The company originally provided by dial-up service.

Later, the company started providing a web portal, instant messaging, e-mail, and later a web browser as well. Just like other Web mail platforms, AOL Mail also runs over the Internet. It uses standard Web browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, et cetera. It also gives its users AOL customer number for any query related to its services.

When talking about emails, the username is the most unique thing that represents your identity. The username comes before the symbol @ and is the first part of the email.

Below are the few solutions to the query related to managing your username:

Can a user delete his AOL username:

Any user if AOL can close his account any time. But make sure you have dropped any subscriptions, services, or associated usernames before you delete your account.

Can a user change his AOL username:

Woefully, once an account is created, no user can modify or change it. The user has to create a new account to get a new username.

How many usernames can a user have?

One user can have only one username for an account. Before November 2017, the company provided the service of adding and restoring deleted usernames. However, it is not possible now.

Also, new usernames can not be linked to new AOL accounts. The new username is to be created as a separate account

Learn something about Primary and secondary usernames:

The name that is created by you while first signing up for an AOL account, is called a primary username.

Earlier AOL provided the option of creating a secondary username that can be linked to a user's Primary username. However, as mentioned earlier, this service was removed in November 2017. No user can now add or manage additional usernames to their new account.

Users now have to delete each username separately.  This is so because each username and account is now viewed as a new account. No user now has the option of delegating a Primary username or creating a secondary username. No of them is allowed.

If you are a long term user of the AOL account and have any query related to your primary and secondary username can contact AOL customer service number.

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