Cubase 8.5 transit vst not working

Thank you, here is why I find your answer puzzling.

How do I login to VST Transit before I have a username when it does not allow me to use my email adress? …the “MySteinberg Email” can’t be used since ‘@’ signs can’t be entered into the MySteinberg Email field as a login name, my email unfortunately, like many others, contains an ‘@’ sign.

I also find it confusing that it downloads and runs VST Transit version 1.0.0 when others here talk about newer patch versions of the software. Perhaps there was a bug in version 1.0.0 that does not accept an ‘@’ sign, and it has been fixed since, but I can’t tell since this is the version my registered cubase 8.5 keeps downloading and running when I start VST Transit.