Unavailable from inactive

There is no way to request a specific tag. If the person who owns the account doesn't sign into the account for 5 year (starting last year) it will be released.

Hi there !

If the gamertag is unavailable, regardless of how long it has been inactive, it will never be available until the player that owns that gamertag changes it.

Hope this helps,

Kind Regards,

Ryan M (DarkLink 900)

Hi there,

I'm afraid there are no ways to be able to acquire a gamertag if the Xbox Live service says it's taken or unavailable, a gamertag might show as inactive but the account itself may still be used. Also keep in mind that spaces or Upper/lower case differences
will not make a Gamertag unique.

There also is not schedule when or if inactive accounts are purged so waiting for that isn't really an option.

The 5 year rule only came into effect last year (I think).

Before that they released about a million inactive gamertags so it's possible it was released & claimed by someone else.

If it says it's unavailable then there's nothing you can do.

Hi there,

there is no official statement of when and if unavailable/inactive gamertags are recycled and how often etc.

All that is known is that the terms of use were changed in the past to have a requirment to be active within a 5 years period, but there is no statement if that will result in the Gamertags becoming available for others.