They should kill entirety of Outlook.com. It's been years and they can't get the spam under control. Nor the absolutely garbage UI.
Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
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Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
#12Looks like they are giving 1 year before actually introducing that change. It's either the quote or the article wrong saying users will have only 4 weeks remaining.
Yeah, the article is wrong, you have 1 year to associate new custom domain addresses before the option to add is removed.
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#13I just got the email mentioned in the article (and that's the only blog source I found for it, including Microsoft.com). After the whole G Suite Free cancellation I thought about switching my domain email to Outlook for that benefit, but I decided against moving. Guess that was a good call.
If you're looking for a new provider I'd vouch for Fastmail. I switched from Google's free plan back when they killed Inbox, and I've been pretty happy with it.
Tutanota is not bad either. Still a small provider but growing. They have also E2EE calendar.
Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
#14currently (or before they remove it) custom domains for outlook are locked with godaddy, meaning you have to have the domain registered with godaddy, or transfer your domain to godaddy
i hope they bring back this feature, but open it to any registrar
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#15He says in 4 weeks but it's actually 1 year and 4 weeks.
It was a PITA feature anyway for the family plans, requiring the domain be hosted on GoDaddy. I can't imagine it was a super popular feature.
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#16I just got the email mentioned in the article (and that's the only blog source I found for it, including Microsoft.com). After the whole G Suite Free cancellation I thought about switching my domain email to Outlook for that benefit, but I decided against moving. Guess that was a good call.
If you're looking for a new provider I'd vouch for Fastmail. I switched from Google's free plan back when they killed Inbox, and I've been pretty happy with it.
My problem is that I use my G Suite Free as a sort-of alias, it all still goes to my main Gmail (that I can't change due to billions of accounts pointing to it) and I then send replies back with the @domain.name identity (and associated SMTP).
I haven't been able to find a service to fill that niche that isn't a whole inbox, but also doesn't feel like some shaky registrar IMAP/SMTP setup. It's definitely a deliverability perk to have Google serve my domain.
Cloudflare have a really nice incoming email redirection feature and I wanted to use it, but they don't support sending emails by design.
Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
#17currently (or before they remove it) custom domains for outlook are locked with godaddy, meaning you have to have the domain registered with godaddy, or transfer your domain to godaddy i hope they bring back this feature, but open it to any registrar
FYI my domain started on godaddy, but I migrated to cloudflare immediately and it has carried on working fine since then.
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#18They should kill entirety of Outlook.com. It's been years and they can't get the spam under control. Nor the absolutely garbage UI.
If they got rid of outlook, then I'd have to find a new email address to give away to every signin place that wants my email and I suspect will email me promotional garbage (or sell my email).
I guess this means that I'm reducing the signal they get for what "good" email is, as approximately 100 percent of the emails I get there are promotional or spam.
Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
#19Looks like they are giving 1 year before actually introducing that change. It's either the quote or the article wrong saying users will have only 4 weeks remaining.
I wonder for how many it's more like 1 year to migrate to some other service.
Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
#20Spammers love this feature of Outlook.com. Services like Outlook.com and Gmail are good at ensuring that their servers are not blocked and that their email gets delivered, perfect for spam delivery. Here is a fun one... You get spam from that appears to be from outlook.com. You look at the email header and find the IP address. You lookup the IP Address registration info and find that it is registered to Microsoft, in…
This is about using a custom domain, and it's not a free feature. It's only if you pay for Microsoft 365 Personal/Family, or any of the 365 business plans. (They're killing it for 365 Personal/Family plans) Spammers can still use a ...@outlook.com address as before, and if they made it to having a domain + paid Microsoft 365 subscription, Microsoft have a credit card to blacklist.
I get plenty of custom domain name spam that comes through outlook.com (I'm not even talking about M365/O365). Free or not, Outlook.com is abused for spam constantly.