How do I use a custom domain I have purchased on Go Daddy with Hotmail

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I have just purchased a domain, e.g. www.example.com

I have also purchase a mailbox with my domain, e.g. george@example.com

I have a Hotmail (or Outlook.com as it's now known) email account that I have used for years, e.g. george@hotmail.com

I still want to use Hotmail for managing emails, however I now want people to be able to email george@example.com (instead of george@hotmail.com). I also want it so that when when I reply to emails, it shows that the email has been sent from george@example.com (not george@hotmail.com)

Can this be done?

ginomay89

Posted 2019-11-12T07:48:05.500

Reputation: 121

Outlook.com and Office 365 mailboxes have almost identical user interfaces. I have an Office 365 Business Premium subscription that I use for a side business. It lets me use my own domain (the registrar doesn't need to be GoDaddy if you go this route) for my hosted Exchange mailbox, includes 2 TB of OneDrive for Business storage, as well as five installs of the Office suite for PCs and/or Mac. I like the convenience of having my Office licenses in the same place, the large amount of storage but most of all: how smoothly the custom email domain side of things works! – Mr Ethernet – 2019-11-12T08:54:47.037

Answers

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This is technically possible, but the mail provider must be configured to recognize your domain. Some providers will map it to your existing mailbox, others will let you manage fully separate mailboxes.

Specifically at Hotmail/Outlook.com, custom domains are only available if you are an Office 365 subscriber. (See the linked article for instructions.) It is not available for free Hotmail accounts.

(Also, oddly, the way Outlook.com implements this feature means it only works with GoDaddy as your registrar. I suppose this is because they're using a special protocol to automatically update MX, SPF, and DKIM records in your domain. Most other providers simply tell you to add all records manually, so they don't have such limitations.)

user1686

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