What do I do if an inactive account has the **Classic** Gamertag that I want?

It also depends on how long the original account has been inactive. They did do a purge of inactive accounts a while ago. In most cases your gamertag should remain unchanged under the same account.

I believe that it is unfair that 98% of all original gamertags are inactive and have be inactive for many, many months/ years. I have always wanted an original tag but it always seems someone has already taken in on an inactive account that has not be sign
into for years. This is unfair because many people creating accounts with original gamertags forgetting the email and password to sign in to them and even play on them. Original gamertags should be reset it the account shows no sign of life or activity for
more then a year. The least the person can do is sign in on Xbox.com. Don't do anything to their account but just refresh the gamertags to give someone else a chance.

after 7 years do the gamertags become avalible because trhe gamertag i want has been inactive for 8 years

DDoS you'd want to speak to your ISP about.



Gamertag you would want to report the gamertag via your console and then block communication.

After the last mass openings of inactive gamertags there was a new policy put into place that the ONLY way gamertags will be released is if the MS account that they are attached to has been inactive for FIVE years from 2016.

What this basically means is that the MS account attached to a tag can not be signed into anything to do with MS for five years starting in 2016 Keep in mind that the MS accounts are more then just Xbox so even if the account shows inactive on the Xbox the
account may be signed in elsewhere. If it is truly inactive the earliest that it will be released would be 2021 five years from the date that the policy was implemented.