How much time will it take to delete an alias/.me account?

[CodeBreaker]

I was pretty excited about iCloud. I have a @mac (not a mobile me account) account which I use for store purchases but it's kindda funny. So I went through the process of creating a new Apple-Yahoo id so I can use it for mail in iCloud.

I set up iCloud using the new Apple id and quickly created a good @me address and three aliases.

And now I realised that your iCloud login ID and @me address are different and so I can use my funny @mac address with iCloud and have a decent @me mail address.

So if I delete my @me addresses I created with iCloud, how long will it take for them to be usable again ?

 

[yanathin]

Unfortunately, I think that once you delete an alias you can never get it back unless you wait the seven days and re-register it on the same account. And even then it might not work. I want one of my aliases on my old MobileMe account to be my main @me address on my new iCloud account with the email address that as all my iTunes purchases. Unfortunately as of now it looks like I won't be able to register that deleted alias from my other account because it still says it's taken, and NOW I can't even re-register it on my old account because I have to wait 7 days to re-create it. I really hope it's not gone forever...

 

[CodeBreaker]

Unfortunately, I think that once you delete an alias you can never get it back unless you wait the seven days and re-register it on the same account. And even then it might not work. I want one of my aliases on my old MobileMe account to be my main @me address on my new iCloud account with the email address that as all my iTunes purchases. Unfortunately as of now it looks like I won't be able to register that deleted alias from my other account because it still says it's taken, and NOW I can't even re-register it on my old account because I have to wait 7 days to re-create it. I really hope it's not gone forever...

Let's pray it works. BTW, I have not deleted the other (new) iCloud account yet but I have deleted the aliases. Fortunately I was able to get one id corresponding to my name (like timc). But I want it to be like tcook, which I had got on my earlier account. Let's hope they forget it after 7 days Or else I will have to use numbers in my id

 

[releu]

Hey there!

I added alias for my apple id and then deleted it.

Now I wanna create a new apple id for that alias, but I can't (email existed error)..

Should I just wait a week or contact support?

 

[noAlvaro]

Hey! Can you update your experiences?