I just went to the "manage my apple ID" webpage and it showed I have a new, and verified, alternate email address called @icloud.com? How did this happen? I tried sending an email to this address and it said there was a "domain error"?

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I just went to the "manage my apple ID" webpage and it showed I have a new, and verified, alternate email address called @icloud.com? How did this happen? I tried sending an email to this address and it said there was a "domain error"?

How did this new alternate email address, @icloud.com, get added to my account? And how did it get verified without receiving an email at this address? Should I delete it from my list of alternate email addresses? Also, is it ok to have an alternate apple ID? My account webpage shows I have an alternate apple ID and it is my @me.com icloud email address.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Sep 26, 2012 10:13 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 27, 2012 12:08 AM in response to Travel-er

@icloud.com addresses are being rolled out over an unspecified period: you will get one without having to do anything, and it will be additional to your @me.com address. You will get a notification email when your account is updated. Please see this page:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5441

If you haven't received the email yet it's likely that the page in question has just been updated for everybody. You will get an @icloud.com address eventually (they do have to work through 150 million users).

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Sep 27, 2012 7:34 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thanks Roger, with all the users to work through I can certainly understand it takes a while. Any ideas about what the alternate apple ID is all about/used for? Thanks for the help!

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Sep 27, 2012 11:50 PM in response to Travel-er

It's not an ID: it's an address with your iCloud account, and it's simply additional to your @me.com address - you can use both and they will deliver into the same inbox. Apple are changing over to @icloud.com addresses to reflect the branding (just as they changed from @mac.com to @me.com when MobileMe was introduced); new @me.com addresses can no longer be created but people with existing @mac.com and @me.com addresses will retain them.

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