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Why are some outlook.com email adresses not available

Anonymous
2016-03-21T14:19:56+00:00

I want to create an account with the name ******@outlook.com where xxxxxxx is meaningful to me, but it says that name is not available even though the account with that name does not exist.

Why is this? Is there a list of reserved words somewhere or something?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-03-30T14:57:47+00:00

    As far as I know there is not.

    Things like Administrator, helpdesk, etc are also probably prohibited.  You may be able to use information@... but there is only one way to find out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-30T14:45:54+00:00

    So is there a list somewhere of the reserved words?

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-21T19:01:56+00:00

    I want e.g.:

    info.thisco at outlook.com

    I already have

    thisco at outlook.com

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-21T17:56:47+00:00

    Sorry but "info"@ outlook.com is prohibited.  I seriously doubt "info" is meaningful.

    Can you tell us more or just give up on ******@outlook.com?

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-21T17:18:56+00:00

    The address I want is an outlook.com address and is of the form info.xxxxxxx

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