Live.nl is a Freemail (Microsoft). Across 48,102 Live.nl addresses verified by BounceZero between April and October 2026, 32.8% were invalid, 0.0% catch-all, 0.7% unknown and 57.3% confirmed valid. The invalid share is far above the business average.
The Live.nl row is all 48,102 addresses verified in the six months to October 2026; the other rows are the benchmarks from the same corpus. Risky and role results fill each row to 100%.
| Segment | Addresses | Invalid | Catch-all | Unknown | Confirmed valid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live.nl | 48,102 | 32.8% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 57.3% |
| All non-freemail domains (business and ISP) | 6,514,884 | 14.5% | 2.3% | 27.0% | 32.6% |
| Business domains only (consumer ISP and freemail excluded) | 1,269,919 | 22.9% | 9.4% | 22.5% | 40.3% |
| All freemail | 1,415,154 | 17.6% | 1.1% | 2.1% | 74.0% |
| All .nl addresses | 87,309 | 21.9% | 0.2% | 4.5% | 54.6% |
Non-freemail includes consumer ISP mailboxes; a business-only cut is on the benchmarks page. Method and every other cut: Lead List Quality Benchmarks 2026. Risky and role on the Live.nl row: 9.2%.
The Dutch regional Outlook brand. Microsoft answers clearly, so unknowns are rare, and a third of addresses are confirmed invalid because the regional domain is no longer issued to new users and old accounts have been recycled.
Microsoft issued live.nl to Dutch users during the Windows Live era and stopped creating new accounts on the regional domain when Outlook.com launched. Existing accounts kept working but dormant ones were recycled. On Dutch B2B lists the address marks sole traders and small shops. The Netherlands enforces the EU rules through the Telecommunications Act, with an opt-in requirement for individuals and a legitimate-interest route for companies.
On confirmed-invalid rate, Live.nl ranks 6 of 29 providers in the corpus, just behind Telefónica at 42.8%, ahead of Netcom at 32.0%.
On unknown rate, Live.nl ranks 25 of 29 providers in the corpus, just behind Optimum at 0.8%, ahead of Windstream at 0.1%.
On confirmed-valid share, Live.nl ranks 5 of 29 providers in the corpus, just behind Alice (TIM) at 64.7%, ahead of TPG at 53.9%.
How to read these rates: they are BounceZero's probe outcomes on customer lists over April to October 2026, not a census of Live.nl mailboxes. Unknown and catch-all measure what verification could not confirm, which depends on the provider's gateway policy during the window as much as on the addresses. The lists are the ones customers chose to upload, so segments dominated by a few large uploads carry their age and source. Method and limitations: benchmarks page.
Unknown is a rounding error on Live.nl at 0.7%; the gateway gives a clear answer and the verdict stands.
32.8% confirmed invalid is far above the 14.5% business average. A list with many Live.nl addresses was compiled a long time ago.
Catch-all is negligible on Live.nl (0.0%); when this provider does return valid, the mailbox accepted the probe itself rather than a blanket accept.
Just over 57% confirmed valid: reachable today, re-verified before every send, since only 19.2% of addresses were still valid 90 days after a check in BounceZero's decay study.
Trust the result. Expect a third of live.nl contacts to drop on first verification; the remainder are stable and reachable.
Role addresses such as info@ and sales@ make up 0.0% of Live.nl addresses in the corpus. Role addresses are rare here, as expected for a mailbox provider.
32.8% of 48,102 Live.nl addresses verified by BounceZero between April and October 2026 were confirmed invalid, against 14.5% across non-freemail domains and 17.6% across freemail.
0.7%. Unknown means the mailbox could not be confirmed either way, usually because the gateway deferred the probe. BounceZero refunds unknown results; on Live.nl it is rare enough to re-check once and move on.
Not in practice: 0.0% of Live.nl addresses returned catch-all, so a valid verdict means the mailbox exists.
57.3% confirmed valid at verification time. Keep bounces under 2% and complaints under 0.3% on the send, and re-verify the segment before every send.
Upload the file and see valid, invalid, catch-all and unknown per row, with the Live.nl segment against this benchmark. 100 free checks a month, unknowns refunded.
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