How can I change my email from ******@hotmail.com to *****@realmadrid.com?

Bonnie , Toronto, Ontario Canada

The short answer is - You Can't.

To explain why, here's an extract from the Wikipedia entry on email addresses.

"E-mail addresses, such as jsmith@example.com, have two parts. The part before the @ sign is the local-part of the address, often the username of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is the domain which is a hostname where the e-mail will be sent. The hostname is looked up in the Domain Name System to find the mail transfer agent or Mail eXchangers (MXs) accepting e-mail for that address.

Often, the domain of an e-mail address is that of an e-mail service, such as Google's Gmail, Microsoft's Hotmail, etc. The domain can also be the domain name of the organisation that the recipient represents, or of the recipient's personal site."

In your case your existing email address is provided by Hotmail. If you were to get the one you want it would be a completely different address, provided by a completely different mail server. You can't just change the bit after the @ sign.

You want an email address from RealMadrid and I suspect that you'd have to be a player, or at least an employee of the club to get on. But don't let me daunt you Bonny - by all means go to that web site and see what you can find.

The other problem is that the name you're after might be an existing RealMadrid player, so it's possibly already taken.

I'd even be surprised if you could find a vacant "Realmadrid" URL to register, as that would be a common choice. The only one I could easily find was realmadrid.jobs.

Paul Zucker