Custom Domains

We've just released Version 3.0 of Custom Domains. We have decided to change the service name to Windows Live Admin Center. We're changing the name to better reflect our features and capabilities, but don't worry, Admin Center is still where you access the same great features you did with Custom Domains.

We're excited to introduce the ability for you to customize services like Windows Live Hotmail® with your own logo. Now your domain users will see your organization logo every time they check their email. Just select the co-branding link in the left navigation to get started.

You can still access the service at domains.live.com though you can expect to eventually be redirected to admincenter.live.com.

We appreciate your business and look forward to continue bringing you new improvements to this service.

Thanks for your understanding as we transition to our new name.

The Windows Live Admin Center Team

The team has been busy working on the Custom Domains service, getting ready for a big release later this summer. We've just released a new version of the SDK V2.0 Beta that adds 12 new methods to help you manage your domains programatically. You can download the SDK here.

 

The SDK is in English only.

 

We would appreciate any comments or suggestions on the SDK, and would love to engage with a limited set of cusotmers to test this version of the SDK. Please email us at dsupport@microsoft.com if you have feedback or want to be in our limited Beta SDK program.

 

Thanks,

Custom Domains Team

Today we released the newest version of Custom Domains for you to try out. Visit the site at https://domains.live.com. We have added some new features and incorporated comments from you in this release. We hope you'll agree that this is the best release to date.

Here are the major highlights of this release:

• We now support all TLD's and ccTLD's.
• You can register subdomains (a domain that is part of a larger domain) with our service. As an example, you could host mail in your primary domain promotehumanity.com as well as your subdomain mail.promotehumanity.com, or both.
• We've improved the Open Membership experience. You can interactively create html code and preview it before you add this to your web site.
• We now offer integration of domains for sale, which includes automatically configuring the service. This feature will initially be available in the US English market with other countries and languages added as partners are onboarded.
• We've improved our error messages and added better Help content. We'll be adding online communities to our Help very soon.
• Many other improvements based on your feedback, including immediate recycle of acounts and on-the-spot e-mail upgrades to Windows Live Mail Beta after logging into your Hotmail account (available in select markets).

We hope you enjoy the improved service. We still value your feedback and encourage you to visit our feedback site and our developer site.

Thank you,
WLCD Team

We are currently experiencing trouble with the engine we use to send out Windows Live Mail beta invitations to your Custom Domains’ user accounts.  This is resulting in users receiving “blank” invitation mails with no information on how to upgrade to the new service.  We are working on this and we expect to resolve the issue shortly.  There is no workaround at this time.  Please accept our regrets for any inconvenience.    We will update this site when the issue is resolved.  Thanks for your patience.

We just released international versions of the Custom Domains service. The Custom Domains website is now available in the following 15 languages across 21 countries. You can get to the international version of the website by clicking on the corresponding link below. Alternatively, it may also be viewed if the browser language is set to one of the supported markets.

 

Australia (English)
Belgium (French and Dutch)
Brazil (Portuguese)
Canada (English and French)
China (Simplified Chinese)
Denmark (Danish)
France (French)
Germany (German)
India (English)
Italy (Italian)
Japan (Japanese)
Korea (Korean)
Mexico (Spanish)
Netherlands (Dutch)
Norway (Norwegian)
Russia (Russian)
Spain (Spanish)
Sweden (Swedish)
Taiwan (Traditional Chinese)
United Kingdom (English)
United States (English and Spanish)

 

We’d love to hear your feedback, especially from our international users on our latest improvements. Please use the “Feedback” link at the bottom of the site to send it to us.

 

Many of our customers have enabled the Open Membership feature for their domains. We'd love to know how you are using Open Memberships to promote your business or web community. Please use the “Feedback” link in the footer of the site to send us your story, and we’ll consider sharing this on our community site (http://dev.live.com/customdomains/default.aspx?app=customdomains).

 

Thank you for using Custom Domains!

Windows Live Custom Domains Team