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27 Mar 2021, 05:13 AM | #1 |
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Outlook.com
"These benefits activate automatically for all Microsoft 365 subscribers who have an Outlook.com mailbox associated with their subscription. Outlook.com mailboxes have email addresses ending in @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, and @msn.com."
Does that mean that if you have say an outlook.tld other than those above you do not get these benefits? Does anyone with a none .com Outlook account know this / please do you mind checking? |
27 Mar 2021, 06:37 PM | #2 |
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Are there any other outlook domains apart
from .com and .org, with the latter pointing to the former (AFAIK)? |
27 Mar 2021, 06:51 PM | #3 |
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Yes, the domain Outlook exists with many ccTLD's. I use one of those domains myself.
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27 Mar 2021, 10:02 PM | #4 |
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Yes, I can look for the article, it is on google.
It is possible to get a outlook.tld email but not hotmail.tld strange Can confirm .tld also gets premium 365 but not sure about security features e.g. link checking? |
27 Mar 2021, 10:03 PM | #5 |
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I had found an article but can;t find it now but found this:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-5f25f9fc43bb |
27 Mar 2021, 11:57 PM | #6 |
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Thank you. A pretty random selection of countries, but it disproves my point all the same.
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28 Mar 2021, 02:56 AM | #7 |
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Not that I need an extra account right now, but I wonder if you can just choose whatever ccTLD you wish without actually living in the country. I remember when I signed up (6 or 7 years ago) I had the choice between .com or my own ccTLD.
So I wonder, living in Belgium, if I could just sign up for an outlook.co.il or outlook.sa address (random examples) without having an IP nor address in the countries associated with those domains. |
28 Mar 2021, 04:01 AM | #8 |
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Yes, you can.
I had no issue. |
28 Mar 2021, 04:15 AM | #9 |
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Quite a few ccTLD's in the list are not available anymore
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28 Mar 2021, 04:53 AM | #10 |
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In the past I wanted an email address with .co.il and .com.tr TLDs as I have strong personal interests in those countries (even lived in Turkey for a while). But now that I already got several email accounts to check regularly, having yet another account to check and keep active seems a bit of a hassle. Still *slightly* tempting.
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4 Apr 2021, 12:34 PM | #11 |
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Back when it was live.com, there was a much larger selection of countries. You could create short emails, which was convenient before browsers auto-completed them.
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4 Apr 2021, 05:44 PM | #12 |
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5 Apr 2021, 09:33 PM | #13 |
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Very much so, that's a really good one!
I don't know why they now offer only a limited number of ccTLD's with the Outlook domain. In the past, Yahoo also offered a long list of ccTLD's, they also stopped doing that (although people who registered a Yahoo.cctld address before new sign-ups stopped, can continue using it). Imagine Gmail were using some ccTLD's, the potential for short and easy-to-remember usernames would be huge! |
19 Apr 2021, 12:29 PM | #14 |
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By default you can register @outlook.com , @hotmail.com and .tld from some countries
Some domains are not available for registration but existing email addresses continue to work and all MSFT email domains have equal rights. For example, I own xxxx@live.com, xxxx@hotmail.com, xxxx@outlook.com, xxx@hotmail.co.il, xxxx@outlook.co.il I had xxxx@msn.com but lost access to it at some point. |