Microsoft has quietly announced it will stop accepting_new registrations for its free Custom Domains service. This announcement matches a similar move by Google in December of 2012._ Ed Bott reports: According to Mike Schackwitz, Principal Group Program Manager for the Outlook.com service, Microsoft will “wind down the Custom Domains product” while continuing to support existing custom email addresses “indefinitely.” The service has been in existence since 2005. The move is disappointing, but not surprising. The fact that the Windows Live Admin Center continued to use the old Windows Live branding and was never updated with the modern design of Outlook.com was probably the biggest clue. In addition, the service has always been extremely limited, with administrators only able to add or delete addresses. And the relatively recent addition of a prominent Microsoft Office 365 link under the Sign In button was telling as well. The landing page at the Windows Live Admin center states: For domain administrators who wish to continue to manage email addresses in their domain, we will...

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