Are you still one of the people who have patiently been waiting for Microsoft to launch the @Live.com email addresses? We’ve showed you plenty of tricks in the past as to how you can get one of those coveted addresses (here, here, and here), but they were all taken down very quickly. We’ve got another one for you today that doesn’t take much effort on your part, and gives you the chance to get in before the rest of the crowd snatches up the good addresses.
Here’s what you have to do:
Note: I had to use Internet Explorer to get this to work.
- Go to www.hotmail.com, click on Sign up, and choose a free account.
- You’ll be taken to the @hotmail.com signup page…don’t panic.
- Modify the URL in the address bar so that hmnewuser.aspx becomes newuser.aspx and then remove the this text: &hm=1
- Hit Enter and signup for your @Live.com address!
This should even work for the different locales (a.k.a. Live.fr, Live.ca, etc…). Go ahead and give it a whirl. Make sure you grab your name, your kids’ names, your cousins’ names, and your aunt’s nephew’s grandma’s twice-removed grandson’s horse’s name. You get the point…it’s an email extravaganza!
As previously mentioned, these addresses won’t be available to the masses until this fall. That means you need to get them while you can!
Kudos to LiveSide for finding this out!
amazing, works great, i got the username Iwantto so that my email address can be iwantto live.com =)
Thank You Ryan. Works like a charm.
Yay thanks
ive got joystiq@live.com and gametap@live.com
and i’m still getting more lol
I had gotten mine back during an earlier tip. However, I do not use the live.com address. I really see no need for it as I have my gmail account that I use all the time, and I have the capability to make any email address at my personal website host.
Awesome, got mine, and one for everyone in the family!
Thanks!
Wow, here I thought Live.com addresses were already public. I don’t care, I prefer Y!MB to WinLive Hotmail, and I’ve already got my choice dot address @yahoo.com.
Help I can only get @live.co.uk addresses!
How can I get .com addresses?
Ive tried changing en-gb to en-us and GB to EN but it just goes to the start page again.
Too late again! Doesn’t seem to work anymore.
i love cybernet
thanks ryan
heh, try haveing your address as ‘billgates’ and it says
“The Windows Live ID contains a word or phrase that is not allowed. Please try again.”
well i thought it was funny, great post
I’m glad to see that most of you got around to getting the address(es) that you wanted! And that is pretty funny about trying to get “billgates” elias.
Sorry, I’m not sure how their regional tracking works.
Have they already taken it off today? When I modify the text, my browser just goes to [get.live.com.] Did anyone else have this problem?
Yep, I think they fixed it. Sorry Matthew.
I got the address but there’s no corresponding mail box.
I double checked with my other .com address and the above is confirmed. It’s not working for .ca
Anyone else?
Problem finally solved!
Logging into Hotmail brings me to my email box whereas [live.ca] does not.
Quem quer um e-mail @live.com.br basta enviar um e-mail com o login que deseja para account@live.com.br
A criação pode demorar 48 horas, mas o usuário terá todos os serviços do Gmail, pois o serviço foi hospedado no Gmail.
Agradecemos a compreensão de todos.
LIVE MAIL BRASIL