@me.com domain gone from alias; can't send or receive email; anyone else?

Yes, same with me. I just posted the following to Mac Daily News:

I just want to alert you to what I think is a looming iCloud disaster. I have an Apple ID. I created an alias under the Apple ID some 5 years ago. It is my main email address. Apple seems to be converting .me accounts to iCloud. My alias has disappeared. It means all emails sent to the .me alias are now bouncing. I called Apple and you usually get a very professional response. I got a guy with an IQ of 50, who could not understand my problem. I asked to be transferred to a Supervisor. I was transferred but not to a supervisor. The new guy understood the problem and got somebody from iCloud. They said wait 24 hours and it will work if it doesn't call back. I said it will not work because the alias is now missing from the account preferences in iCloud. I asked the guy to get me someone from iCloud. He said the "channel" had closed. I asked what that meant and it meant that they had gone home for the night. I am calling from Australia and I guess it's 9pm West Coast time. If I have this problem, thousands of others are going to have the same problem. People are going to be screaming.

Yes I am having the same problem. I'm UK based - last email that arrived in my in box 04.19 BST. All emails sent to my me.com alias (my main business address) are getting an error bounce-back "name not recognised" and my alias has disappeard from the drop-down list apparantly t replaced by name@icloud.com - which I never set up. No warning, no explanation on ICloud support.

PS and I cannot re-create my me.com alias as the ONLY option they offer for the domain option is @icloud.com

This should not be happening, of course. Today my @icloud.com address has been enabled (though no email to tell me so) and I've sent a test message to the same alias @icloud.com, @me.com and @mac.com - all worked.

Therefore something has gone wrong. It may be that this will sort itself out in a day or so, though it's bad of them to do this when people are relying on receiving email. You could try Support, but the odds are you'll get the same answer.

What concerns me is that all 3 versions of my original .mac login work only the me.com alias I set up has disappeared. My conversation with support indicated that it was he thought it was an error and have been promised a phone back response in one business day but no timeline for a resolution. Not normally a moaner but i'm not sure bad quite covers this one! I could quite literally be losing business as I write. Even if the account is eventually reinstated, will any emails lost come back with it?

Not Apple's finest hour!

I am the same. I callled Apple support and nobody has any idea what you are talking about. I was politely told that my .me alias was being changed to .icloud alias. I asked if I could no longer receive email to my .me alias, which bouces with the same error message that you get. I was cheerfully told "yes that's correct you can no longer receive emails on the .me email alias, have a nice day". By the way there is no iCloud tech support unit. I've been shunted around with the last escalated expert being situated in Singapore. What really galls me is that nobody understands the problem.

I got escalated to some guy in Singapore who had no idea what I was talking about. He told me that there wasn't a dedicated iCloud support area so you couldn't speak to anyone in the iCloud area. I am totally staggered with this. The alias was my main email address.

To contact Support: if you currently happen to have AppleCare, either because you recently bought Apple hardware or have paid to extend the inititial period, you can contact them here:

http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/contact/

You will need the serial number of the covered hardware.

If you are not covered by AppleCare, then - in common with other free email services - there is no free support (MobileMe Support is no longer available) and you will probably be asked to pay a fee; in this case, as it's their fault, you should dig your heels in and tell them you want it fixed for free. You should not have lost your @me.com address but this has happened to a few people.

Add me to the growing list of those who've lost all .me aliases. My main email has been gone since the afternoon of 9/26 and I don't see any change. I've deleted and re-installed my mail account several times to no avail. Definitely an Apple problem, but that knowledge doesn't help us who are without their primary email.

An update. I have been escalated to an Irish based tech support guy and have been given international free phone no. and his extension. He has passed case to iCloud engineering in US and has red flagged it. It is good to be talking to a named contact who appears to grasp the seriousness of the problem. I have had to authorise access to my account via changed password. He is confident that the lost alias can be reinstated.

Even if it does work I am not sure that days of lost emails will come back with it. What still surprises me is that has not become a bigger issue, are we really a small number of victims of a random **** up rather than a systematic failure?

Although several people have complained about this I don't think it can be a widespread issue or we would have seen a torrent of complaints (cf the outage a couple of weeks back). Mind you, even a very small proportion of 150 million is still an awful lot of unhappy customers.

Same problem here. The me.com alias has been replaced by icloud.com. Everyone is getting bounce backs as this is my primary address. I hate to think of how long it would take to change every place where my email is registered! I hope this is reinstated soon. I hope I am not missing any time-critical messages.

Have spent 40 minutes on the phone with Apple have never been more frustarted with the company before in my life. They are telling me that my @me alias wasn't migrated even though 2 of my other aliases wore. Just so happens the one that didn't migrate over is my primary email address. They are basically saying that I might not be able to get that email back. That account was working less than 24 hours ago and all of the sudden has disappeared. What a mistake by Apple if this email is gone forever. I have 0 idea how this could happen.