How to get free email using a personal .tel email address
A .tel domain does not include email hosting by default, but provides the necessary support for a .tel email address. To have a .tel email address, you need to setup mail servers to host your mailbox, and add MX records pointing to those servers from your .tel domain. You can add MX records from the Settings link in the .tel control panel.
Simple instructions on setting up a free .tel mailbox using Google Mail
1. Sign up for the standard edition of Google Apps here.
· Select the 'Administrator: I own or control this domain' option from the sign up page and enter your .TEL domain name.
· Enter all your personal information.
· Enter the email address you want setup at your .TEL domain and finish the sign up process.
2. Verify Domain Ownership
You have two options to verify that you own the domain typically: create a CNAME record or upload an HTML file. You can also verify domain ownership by configuring your MX records.
If you already have an email system in place for your domain, be sure to create user accounts before changing your MX records.
Since you are unable to create a CNAME record that points to anywhere but the .TEL domain or upload an HTML page, the only way to verify the domain ownership is to update your MX records with Google Apps host names and wait 24-48 hours for Google to automatically confirm that the domain is setup correctly.
To do this you will need to login to your Name.com account, go into the domain details page for the .TEL you want to setup on Google Apps and click on the 'TEL MX Record Management' link and enter in the Google Apps host names with their corresponding priorities:
Priority Points to
1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
Once you have done this you will need to wait 24-48 hours for Google to verify that the domain MX records have been updated. Google will upgrade the account to a 'Verified' account on it's own and does not require you to take any other action.
You can also visit Google's page regarding Verifying Domain Ownership here.