# How to get back your old XBOX Live gamertag?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-back-your-old-xbox-live-gamertag/215500>\
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**Created:** [February 7, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-back-your-old-xbox-live-gamertag/215500 "2007-02-07T19:19:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![DDD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DDD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DDD)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-back-your-old-xbox-live-gamertag/215500/1 "2007-02-07T19:19:29Z")

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I wanna spark mine back up, but I want to keep my old name. Is this possible? This account is really really old. I got it when I bought my first gen xbox on the release date and they gave you a free year with it.

Any idea if Microsoft kept the name or threw it back in the pool? The selected the name for me and it was pretty tight so I kept it. It was “DEADLYORPHAN” :lol: