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How to Get FREE email Address for Your Domain

If you have your own domain & would like to have an email address on your domain ([email protected]) for free, there few methods to do it.

1. Hosting Account

This is not really FREE because you have to purchase a hosting account. However, if you have an existing hosting account to host your website, normally there is no additional fee involved. From my observation, this is the most commonly method that people do.

However, I think this service is not the best ways as your hosting server may experience a problem from time to time, and causing you to lose and not receive certain important email. Another issue is hosting account migration; you may not receive important email during the process. If you are using huge email storage, there may be a headache to migrate the account too.

2. Google Apps Standard Edition

Google used to offer Standard FREE Google Apps account but stop doing so since 6th December 2012. However, if you have signup before that, you are allowed to continue using it.

With Google Apps account, Google will host your email service & you will have a cloud storage of 15GB for each user. The storage is shared between Gmail and Google Drive. Service like Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Sites and many more are also added to each user account. Each FREE Google Apps account can have in between 10 to 2000 FREE users depending upon the sign-up date & application for extra users.

If you sign-up prior to 6th December 2012, your account remains active & you are allowed to ADD additional domains to your account for FREE. However, since 14th November 2014, Google no longer allow user with legacy Standard Google Apps to additional or secondary domain.

3. Windows Live Admin

For the time being, Windows Live Admin is the only service remain FREE & anyone may sign up to it. You may use your existing Live Mail, Outlook or Hotmail account to subscribe to Windows Live Admin. After sign-up, you can have extra domains, and you can add up to 50 users for each domain. If 50 accounts per domains are not enough, you may request for more.

With Windows Live Admin, your email service is hosted by Microsoft. You also will received 7GB FREE cloud storage at Windows Live SkyDrive.

Unfortunately, since 10th April 2014, Microsoft start to wind down the Custom Domains but existing email address continue to work.

Conclusion

After using all 3 services that I describe above, I can say that Google Apps & Windows Live admin are much better than email service from hosting account for their service reliability & the most importantly you don’t have to worry about hosting migration.

Between Google Apps & Windows Live Admin, I like Google Apps the most because,

  1. Google Apps has better compatibility when integrating with email software and web application such as CMS or Shopping cart scripts.
  2. Google Apps SPAM filtering service is not as strict as Windows Live. From my experience, I have a lot of problems where I did not receive a lot of emails with Windows Live due to very strict email filtering. This is true if the email sent by using PHP sendmail function.
  3. Google Apps do not remove your account if you did not log in to your account for some period of time.

How to Register @live.* / @hotmail.* / @outlook.* e-mail Address

Microsoft launched Windows Live Hotmail in 2007, and they were offering many domains ranging from @live.*, @hotmail.* to @windowslive.com. In 2012, Microsoft also introduce @.outlook.* domain.

If you find out that your favorite IDs were taken out in popular e-mail service such as @yahoo.com or @gmail.com, here is your chance to claim it from Windows Live & Outlook. They are plenty of domains to choose from.

Another good news is that, if someone already used your favourite ID at @hotmail.com, for example, you can still use the same ID with other domains.

You can find the link to register the email in the link below. These links are not shown at Windows Live webpage. The links specially redirect you to applicable sign-up page for your preferred domain.

Select your preferred domain & click on the registration link. If the link does not work, kindly clear up your browser caches & cookies. Retry and it should be working.

Country Domain Language Registration Link
Arabic Countries hotmail.com
outlook.com
outlook.sa
windowslive.com
Arabic Click Here
Argentina hotmail.com
hotmail.com.ar
outlook.com
outlook.com.ar
live.com.ar
Spanish Click Here
Australia hotmail.com
hotmail.com.au
outlook.com
outlook.com.au
live.com.au
English Click Here
Austria hotmail.com
outlook.com
outlook.at
live.at
German Click Here
Belgium hotmail.com
hotmail.be
outlook.com
outlook.be
live.be
French
Dutch
Click Here
Click Here
Brazil hotmail.com
hotmail.com.br
outlook.com
outlook.com.br
live.com
Portuguese Click Here
Canada hotmail.com
hotmail.ca
outlook.com
live.ca
English
French
Click Here
Click Here
Czech Republic hotmail.com
hotmail.cz
outlook.com
outlook.cz
windowslive.com
Czech Click Here
Chile hotmail.com
hotmail.cl
outlook.com
outlook.cl
live.cl
Spanish Click Here
China hotmail.com
outlook.com
live.com
live.cn
Chinese Click Here
Denmark hotmail.com
hotmail.dk
outlook.com
outlook.dk
live.dk
Danish Click Here
Finland hotmail.com
hotmail.fi
outlook.com
live.fi
Finnish Click Here
France hotmail.fr
outlook.com
outlook.fr
live.fr
French Click Here
Greece hotmail.com
hotmail.gr
outlook.com
outlook.com.gr
windowslive.com
Greek Click Here
Germany hotmail.com
hotmail.de
outlook.com
outlook.de
live.de
German Click Here
Hong Kong hotmail.com
hotmail.com.hk
outlook.com
live.hk
Chinese Click Here
Hungary hotmail.com
hotmail.hu
outlook.com
outlook.hu
windowslive.com
Hungarian Click Here
India hotmail.com
hotmail.co.in
outlook.com
outlook.in
live.in
English
Hindi
Click Here
Click Here
Indonesia hotmail.com
hotmail.co.id
outlook.com
outlook.co.id
windowslive.com
English
Indonesian
Click Here
Click Here
Ireland hotmail.com
outlook.com
outlook.ie
live.ie
English
Irish
Click Here
Click Here
Israel hotmail.com
hotmail.co.il
outlook.com
outlook.co.il
windowslive.com
Hebrew Click Here
Italy hotmail.com
hotmail.it
outlook.com
outlook.it
live.com
live.it
Italian Click Here
Japan hotmail.co.jp
outlook.com
outlook.jp
live.jp
Japanese Click Here
Korea hotmail.com
hotmail.co.kr
outlook.com
outlook.kr
live.co.kr
Korean Click Here
Latvia hotmail.com
hotmail.lv
outlook.com
outlook.lv
windowslive.com
Latvian Click Here
Lithuania hotmail.com
hotmail.lt
outlook.com
windowslive.com
Lithuanian Click Here
Malaysia hotmail.com
hotmail.my
outlook.com
outlook.my
live.com.my
English
Malay
Click Here
Click Here
Mexico hotmail.com
outlook.com
live.com.mx
Spanish Click Here
Netherlands hotmail.com
hotmail.nl
outlook.com
live.nl
Dutch Click Here
Norway hotmail.com
hotmail.no
outlook.com
live.no
Norwegian Click Here
Philippines hotmail.com
hotmail.ph
outlook.com
outlook.ph
live.com.ph
English Click Here
Portugal hotmail.com
outlook.com
outlook.pt
live.com.pt
Portuguese Click Here
Russia hotmail.com
outlook.com
live.ru
Russian Click Here
Serbia hotmail.com
hotmail.rs
outlook.com
Serbian Click Here
Singapore hotmail.com
hotmail.sg
outlook.com
outlook.sg
live.com.sg
English Click Here
Slovakia hotmail.com
hotmail.sk
outlook.com
outlook.sk
windowslive.com
Slovak Click Here
South Africa hotmail.com
hotmail.co.za
outlook.com
live.co.za
English Click Here
Spain hotmail.com
hotmail.es
outlook.com
outlook.es
live.com
Spanish
Catalan
Click Here
Click Here
Sweden hotmail.com
hotmail.se
outlook.com
live.com
live.se
Swedish Click Here
Taiwan hotmail.com
hotmail.com.tw
outlook.com
livemail.tw
Taiwanese Click Here
Thailand hotmail.com
hotmail.co.th
outlook.com
outlook.co.th
windowslive.com
Thai Click Here
Turkey hotmail.com
hotmail.com.tr
outlook.com
outlook.com.tr
windowslive.com
Turkish Click Here
Vietnam hotmail.com
hotmail.com.vn
outlook.com
outlook.com.vn
Vietnamese Click Here
UK hotmail.co.uk
outlook.com
live.co.uk
English Click Here
USA hotmail.com
outlook.com
live.com
English
Spanish
Click Here
Click Here