Get free Hotmail for your Domain
Have a domain that’s going waste without a host ? Now, you can at least get email on it, for free ! Microsoft has launched Windows Live Custom Domains which allows you to create 20 email addresses, each of 250 MB storage that you can access from hotmail. There are a couple of catches here, the most notable being lack of POP/SMTP support, which is really, really bad, and the second being that only customers from United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico can get the 250 MB allocation, and the rest must remain content with a meagre 25 MB, which you can otherwise get from other free hosts.
Probably, Microsoft wants more control over .NET Passports, as all such email addresses will automatically become a .NET Passport, with email integrated. What next, a 2 GB offering from Google’s Gmail ? 
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well, I think that the domains can still work with GMail, though you’d have to work around a few things.
Most domain registrars provide free email forwarding for domains registered with them, if your are using their nameservers that is. You can easily use their nameservers if your don’t have anything on your domain. Then you can create email IDs in your domain control panel & point them to be forwarded to your GMail account.
If unfortunately your domain registrar doesn’t provide free email forwarding, there’s still hope. You can signup with a free DNS forwarding service like ZoneEdit & point your domain to their nameservers which you get after signup. Then your can create an email forward with them & have it forwarded to your GMail address.
Next your add a FROM email address in your GMail & it’ll send a confirmation email to that email(which will arrive in your GMail). You click on the confirmation & off you go, your GMail is now hosting your email address of that domain & you can easily send emails from your personalised email now via GMail & receive emails to it in GMail as well!! :tup: