I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service • Hacker News Board

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by capableweb » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:51 AM UTC

sshagent wrote: post #5

I think i might have realised I've become old, when the very idea of an emoji domain causes me anger. sigh

Don't think it's about age. I'm also considered old (in the technology sphere at least) and I don't really enjoy the "emoji" humor either, but I don't get mad about seeing them. Let others have their fun, no need to get angry about things you cannot control.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by sixhobbits » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:52 AM UTC

sixhobbits wrote: post #10

I'm confused by the post about if I can buy g@ or only g@.kz - the post seems to suggest the former but I don't understand how that would work

oh HN doesn't support emojis - that is

    g@.kz

or

g@

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by ylere » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:53 AM UTC

Cool project! Like others noted mail can be such a pain though, you'll need a lot of customers to make it worth keeping it running after the first year.

Note: In the FAQ it says the price is $5/yr, but it seems to be $9.99 now.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by Aldipower » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:54 AM UTC

This address will not work for obvious historic reasons in Germany.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by quickthrower2 » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:54 AM UTC

I really enjoyed the rabbit hole and sort of wished you made more money.

I think you need FOMO to get this to take off. My idea would be to join clubhouse app (I can invite you if you need) and tell people about your story as it’s entertaining, get some influencers there to have an emoji email on their bio as a contact - which is a perfect fit as most bios have a lot of emojis and clubhouse has no DM feature but people like to get I touch. The idea is a nice mix of utility and craze. Better than those NFTs in my opinion.

Plus I’m tempted to get one :) I’ll sleep on it though.

Good luck!

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by kuu » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:54 AM UTC

Really fun idea and interesting to see how it grew and grew :)

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by teddyh » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:55 AM UTC

When we can’t even discuss current tech events here on HN because HN filters out the characters needed, maybe it’s time for HN to rethink its emoji filtering policy.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by pwdisswordfish0 » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:55 AM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26421454

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by kuon » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:56 AM UTC

sixhobbits wrote: post #12

sixhobbits wrote: post #10

I'm confused by the post about if I can buy g@ or only g@.kz - the post seems to suggest the former but I don't understand how that would work

oh HN doesn't support emojis - that is g@ .kz or g@

I think you need the .kz, if you don't, I can officially say that I am out of the tech game and need to go grow potatoes.

Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

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Post by sschueller » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:56 AM UTC

sixhobbits wrote: post #12

sixhobbits wrote: post #10

I'm confused by the post about if I can buy g@ or only g@.kz - the post seems to suggest the former but I don't understand how that would work

oh HN doesn't support emojis - that is g@ .kz or g@

I am also confused. I assume the email address would always be postfixed with .kz or the email would not arrive.