Free Up Old MobileMe Address, For Use As iCloud Alias?

Back when Apple were offering free trials of MobileMe, I signed up for the service and created an @me.com address.
Now that I'm using iCloud, I would to use that @me.com address as one of my aliases in Mail. However, the iCloud website says that the alias is already taken. Yes, it's taken because I took it years ago, for use with MobileMe!
So my question is, how do I free up that old @me.com to make it available as one of my aliases?

Ok, well I followed your instructions.
I tried to re-active my expired MobileMe ID as an iCloud account, by signing up to iCloud with my old expired MobileMe account and password. Here's what Apple's iCloud site had to say about that:
So I clicked on the Get Started button, and then got this message:

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