Apple does this. It is even more frustrating! If you ever had two Apple accounts, and close one, you can _never_ add the e-mail from the deleted account as an alias to the remaining account.
You can imagine the headaches this causes.
You can imagine the headaches this causes.
I was hoping to start over with a fresh account and instead ended up having to create a new email alias in Outlook to use to create a new Apple account - luckily I used an alias the first time as well so the impact wasn't as bad.