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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

#61

I’m surprised it doesn’t support emoji in the name field. No @ .kz

When email addresses were standardized, unicode wasn't around.

For domains and hostnames we have punycode which maps unicode characters onto the ASCII charset, which is why it works.

This does not apply to the user portion of the email address.

Emoji as part of the display name should work, i.e. "Emoji"

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

#62
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?

You think the average person would know what a ccTLD is or that kz refers to Kazakhstan?

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

#63
post #58

I have a domain that would be great for an e-mail forwarding service, but I have second throughts about starting it... Is there someone here with experience in this area? What should the OP be most scared of?

Abuse by spammers and criminals, DDoS and hacking attempts for starters.

Lots of spam complaints to handle manually. Also payments using stolen credit cards.

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

#64

Fun idea! But It’s too bad that Kazakhstan’s decision to MITM all HTTPS traffic makes this a nonstarter for actual use https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-i...

That seems completely unrelated to an email service, especially if most of its users are outside of Kazakhstan.

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

#65

> and yes, most form validations hate them. Big mistake of these forms. Sometimes people are enormously resistant to following the specifications.

I used to have an email address at university along the line of "f.d'a@university.edu". I couldn't make use of it, because no-one believed it was a valid address even though it is allowed by the goddam RFC. turns out you could put a lot of funky stuff in the local part of an email, spaces ? yep. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696#page-5

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

#66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone outside the german-speaking countres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps -- In german: Konzentrationslager, abbreviated with KZ. Similarly, never use abbrevations like SS, NS, AH, HH, HJ in Germany. Also, some of these are forbidden on our license plates.

Are Buddhists and Hinduists allowed to use Swastika in Germany?

The German swastika is a mirror reflection of the religious icon, btw.

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

#68
post #6

> I setup an email forwarder to route all email sent to .ws to my regular email address. >Eagerly I typed ben@.ws into the "to" field of gmail and hit send. > The email never hit my inbox. It was lost forever in cyberspace. I think this was just caused by Gmail now working when a message is sent and received at the same account. It just disappears. [0] It’s really annoying, it’s not part of a spec, it’s just gmail. I…

Exchange also does this, if you are part of a group, send an email to that group, you will never get it. We ran into it when one of our systems were sending an alert for a failed action to a group, but it was sending it on behalf of the person that tried to do that action and eventually failed. Everyone in the group was getting the email, except the original person.

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

#69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I am very thankful that it’s not supported

Lets just use punycode, it can be the new l33t xn--g28h

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

#70

Maybe the whole covid thing lowered my happiness-level standards, but I find this charming. Also I would be scared to receive actual money from people for something as out of my control as email. I hope the author doesn't get hit by a wave of "my emoji emails are not being delivered to @commercial-behemoth or @government-branch and I've made my emoji adress my main one and it's all your fault" a few months down the l…

On the mailoji website it says you cannot currently send emails using your mailoji address. It's just for forwarding mail to your main inbox at the moment
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