hotmail.com email address when you are from the UK

[BigglesPiP]

I have 2 old .com addresses.

 

[NotAGolf]

I signed up about 2 weeks ago and got a .com. Annoying as I wanted a .uk really. It's my third active hotmail account thogh, the other two have been opened a long time and are both uk's, wonder if that makes a difference.

 

[memyselfandi]

I have a pre-Microsoft .com address for Hotmail and several gmail.com addresses ....

 

[GFiSH]

I've got one from years ago, don't use it any more though.

 

[Freefaller]

I have the best hotmail address (it's a .co.uk one) - how I managed to get it before anyone else I don't know!

 

[ChrisJSY]

Managed to get a live.co.uk addy with my first name before anyone managed to whip it up, not often you can find an email like that


But it was purely to sit on it, I don't use it.

 

[DampCat]

I just put in my address as beverley hills 90210 about 10 years ago

Hah! i use that for everything that requires a zip code

I have a .com from long before Hotmail was bought by Microsoft.

 

[SpeedFreak]

I have the email [email protected] when somebody on here revealed an early hack for getting accounts before they were released.

It seemed good at the time, but the amount of spam and password reset requests I get is unreal!

 

[Bennie-Mac]

I just googled a US Zip Code and address then entered that in from the UK and it worked fine

 

[Freefaller]

I have the email [email protected] when somebody on here revealed an early hack for getting accounts before they were released.

It seemed good at the time, but the amount of spam and password reset requests I get is unreal!

I have the same issue

 

[red11]

Regardless of the address I enter, I only get two options, live.co.uk or hotmail.co.uk


Regarding the proxies, can anyone suggest a good free proxy that allows https? There are countless normal ones, but when it comes to signing up for an account somewhere, those proxies don't work, especially for hotmail, where it reverts to the .co.uk address options again.

 

[MooMoo444]

I have a .com address and I'm in the UK, I'm confused

 

[krooton]

I have a .com (2000), it's quicker/easier to type than .co.uk

 

[Ukadder]

Got a .com as well but don't use it much. My main address is [email protected] obviously replacing them with my actual name!

 

[Vegetarian]

I got a hotmail.com addy last year - I just put in a USA addy and I got the address I wanted.

 

[Raymond Lin]

I have both, and signed up for the .co.uk one so early I have my first name @ hotmail .co.uk, no last name, no numbers.

 

[Scottland]

You can alter the URL to get a .com one. I've got a live.ca one now, it's the shortest one I could get with my initials before the @.

 

[Dave]

I've got a .com one from back in the days of dialup. hotmail.com people are better people

 

[z0mbi3]

The hack everyone was using before was the following:

Go here and selecting "create a windows live address" and sticking the below javascript in the address bar.


javascript: var p = 'live.'; var ds = new Array('com', 'cn', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'com.au', 'be', 'de', 'us'); for (var i = 0; i < ds.length; i ++){document.getElementById('idomain').options = new Option(p + ds, p + ds)} alert('domains added');

Also I just went here and it's letting me pick hotmail.com.

 

[Scottland]

You don't even need to do that, just alter the part in the URL that says "mkt=en-gb"