Yes (for me and probably works for everyone else in NZ who has a hotmail.com account ) sending email to user(a)hotmail.co.nz goes to user(a)hotmail.com. I guess as they know I'm in NZ they do this automatically. I've found no way to send FROM lennonnz(a)hotmail.co.nz from the webmail tho. From: Mike Cooper <mikec.cooper(a)gmail.com<mailto:mikec.cooper(a)gmail.com>> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:33:35 +1200 To: <phonenet(a)phonenet.in-newzealand.com<mailto:phonenet(a)phonenet.in-newzealand.com>> Cc: nznog <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz<mailto:nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>> Subject: Re: [nznog] Email issue hotmail.co.nz On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Phonenet <phonenet(a)phonenet.in-newzealand.com<mailto:phonenet(a)phonenet.in-newzealand.com>> wrote: Question How is email getting to him at all - is there some sort of wizardry going on that resolves hotmail.co.nz<http://hotmail.co.nz> to hotmail.com<http://hotmail.com> that is not apparent when checking DNS , tracerouting or trying to browse to hotmail.co.nz<http://hotmail.co.nz>?