How to use any email address with MSN Messenger

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I got the same thing Sophie. What kind of address were you trying to register? I have a suspicion that the only non-Microsoft emails it allows are free domain emails i.e. gmail, yahoo, etc. I tried entering the email address I got from my provider and I got that same error message.

The portion of your e-mail address that follows the @ symbol is part of a “reserved domain” such as live.com, hotmail.com, msn.com or passport.com. Please type a different e-mail address.

I thought it would be easy to retrieve an old email address.

I have seen a lot of comments on this error without much real explanation of what is really happening.

I too had the error but I have determined the source and reason. The problem is in the error message and the Help information. The answer is that the domain name has been setup by the domain owner in the Live Services system as a Live Custom , OfficeLive, or Windows Azure domain. This then reserves that domain in Live Services. Once reserved only the domain owner (administrator) can delegate Live IDs in that domain. So no matter what name you put in it will be rejected for that domain with one exception explained below.
This gives control to the domain owner as it should be. I grant you that many domain administrators are unaware of this behavior but it is by design.
Consider companyXYZ.com hires Bill. Bill is assigned by the administrator an email account in the corporate domain. Bill then uses his companyXYZ.com email account to identify himself for personal interest at FaceBook.com and creates a personal account on FaceBook.com. Later Bill is fired because of some improper conduct. Is it unreasonable that the company should be able to delete Bill’s email address? No. Further the company doesn’t want Bill representing the company in any way including using the email on FaceBook. At present there is no feedback to a FaceBook type company. So Bill will eventually have to change his email address on FaceBook if he wants to continue using that service.
The exception I mentioned above. If your administrator created an account in a reserved Live domain it “IS” a Live ID. It doesn’t then need be created because it will already exist from the moment the administrator created it.

I hope this helps clear up this issue for you. If you get that message then it is really by design. I hope the documentation gets fixed which is the real problem.

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I got this message;You’ve reached the daily limit for creating Windows Live IDs. Please wait a day and try to sign up again or contact support for assistance.

Error code: 450 : 0x800482d4 : 2009-10-23T05:22:28 GMT.Need your assistance please.

Michael,
To have reserved your domain In Live ID you may have used Windows Live Custom Domain (now called: Admin Center http://domains.live.com/manage) or at OfficeLive.com.
Depending on where the domain is reserved you need to go there to create your email accounts for that domain.
If on the other hand you “once upon a time” used Microsoft’s Custom Domains or even if you created the custom domain entry but never actually used it (you didn’t make any suggested DNS changes) the domain is still in their system (reserved).
You MUST have the orginal Windows Live ID that created the account to make the changes. Microsoft support can send a password reset to the account that created the account which in my case was what I needed to know which old email address I had used.
Here is how it works in OfficeLive. Login to your OfficeLive account and administer the email accounts adding any that you want to be new Live IDs. These will automatically be Live ID’s.
In Admin Center (Custom Live Domains) login then click your domain name. Add email accounts as noted above in OfficeLive.
NOTE!!! Even if you don’t point your DNS email MX records to Microsoft to actually handle the email you must add the email accounts to the Live services for reserved domain.
If you are NOT using their email servers then I suggest that you cancel your accounts in Live to release the reservations. There really is no reason other than controlling the who can use your domain in Live to have your domain reserved. I personally have all my domains reserved because I do want control. I don’t want people I don’t authorize using my domains as their Live ID. Unless the domain is reserved you can use any domain name for your Live ID (you won’t get notices but you can create the account.)
Larry

I got the same thing !!!!! So annoyin x what do i do ?

Great work thanks

The latest response to this post reminded me that I still did not have a resolution to my issue so here I go again… This time with success and no help from support.

I went back to Live Domains admin center and used the get started link to add a Live Domain. This time I was prompted with a “suspended” message telling me to prove ownership of the domain by adding a cname record to my DNS entries. I complied and was granted access to the domain administration. I removed all the members that I had set up and then cancelled the account.

I then tried to convert the email address I originally wanted to use as a Live acocunt. BINGO! All is well with the world, well not really the world but at least I recovered my self hi-jacked domain.

Hope this helps someone.

I gave the long version above. Here is the short version…
If you get the message cited above AND you are not the owner and administrator of the domain name that is “reserved” then you must do one of the following:
1 Get the owner of the domain to create your email account for you in the reserved domain.
2 Create an NEW email account at live.com or hotmail.com (even if you never intend to use it) then use the new account for your messenger.
If the domain is RESERVED and it is NOT yours then you don’t have any right to use it. It is that simple.

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