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

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

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Post by folli »

shakow wrote: post #41
capableweb wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For us who don't have the historic context (nor understand the reference to past concentration camps), what do you mean it won't work?

KZ is the shorthand for Konzentrationslager, i.e. concentration camp.

i.e. Nazi Death Camp

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

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Post by amenod »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #3

This is a fun hack, but there is no way I would get involved in providing any form of commercial email service for $1440 arr. I wouldn't do it for $1440 a _day_. Everything involved with email is pain. I wish you luck.

Note that OP is actually generating loss at this point - 300 domains at $8 equals $2400, which is in itself bigger than the income.

Can you maybe share what problems OP might have? I have toyed with an idea of starting something similar and would love to know what I'm getting into.

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

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Post by manquer »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #3

This is a fun hack, but there is no way I would get involved in providing any form of commercial email service for $1440 arr. I wouldn't do it for $1440 a _day_. Everything involved with email is pain. I wish you luck.

Depends. If he is actually running only a forwarder , it is much easier than running an full fledged service with mailboxes and other support.

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

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Post by capableweb »

xPaw wrote: post #46
enriquto wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notice that HN already does support unicode: α β γ é ö 本 It actively filters out a small part of it, mostly emojis (which I think that it is a good thing to do).

Is HN actually filtering these, or they use utf8 in mysql which is famously not full utf8mb4?

Hah, you think HN would use something mainstream like mysql?! I don't blame you.

But HN is 100% custom software, and built with it's own programming language as well, Arc (on Racket). AFAIK, HN still runs on files-as-a-db. You could check out the source here: http://arclanguage.org/install

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

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

capableweb wrote: post #47
shakow wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KZ is the shorthand for Konzentrationslager, i.e. concentration camp.

Ok, and .kz is the ccTLD for Kazakhstan. You think people can't realize the difference?

There's a difference between "realising the difference" and "actively wanting it as my internet identity".

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

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Post by Tepix »

capableweb wrote: post #48
rob74 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the same reason, I hope he doesn't support this emoji https://emojipedia.org/star-of-david/ - or else the service would attract customers he might not want to be associated with...

Eh, you don't want the service to attract Jews or what? Star of David is a symbol within the Jewish community. What you are referring to is probably the "Yellow badge" that was used by Nazis for identifying Jews. Two very different things. Let's not make all Jewish symbols Nazi-related, we have enough of that already. Also, some soldiers wore the Star of David as a symbol of defiance against antisemitism. So if you s…

Associating the star of david with the .kz TLD (concentration camp) is not a good idea.

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

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Post by monstersinF »

tester34 wrote: post #24
teddyh wrote: post #17

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.

I think you may expect way too much from such a simple website

I am very thankful that it’s not supported

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

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Post by sieste »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #22
Aldipower wrote: post #14

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

Yeah, that product is pretty much dead on arrival in Germany Such emails would look _very_ sketchy to most Germans

As a native German I have to admit that the problem with .kz only occurred to me after you mentioned it. I'm not sure if I should feel good or bad about this.
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