Some good news to those in the UK:
British users of Hotmail accounts now have a better chance to get that email address they always wanted. Microsoft is introducing the @hotmail.co.uk address to make it easier to think up a new name and not one of the 187 million hotmail.com addresses already spoken for.
Other countries to get their own Hotmail domains are Germany, France, Italy and Japan.
so if your quick you can register colinharman@hotmail.com or paulfp@hotmail.com or even james@hotmail.com before a million others do! Source.