I'm still don't know why emoji's are a thing.
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
#102There's a big downside to using .kz in that the registry has a policy (as per https://nic.kz/rules/ ) that .kz hostnames must relate to "Internet resources" located on hardware and software located within the territory of Kazakhstan. I think the OP is OK as it appears the IP addresses of both the A and MX records are located within Kazakhstan, but something to be aware of if you think registering a .kz is a fun idea(…
> There's a big downside to using .kz in that the registry has a policy (as per https://nic.kz/rules/) that .kz hostnames must relate to "Internet resources" located on hardware and software located within the territory of Kazakhstan.
Any country TLD is a potential risk that most western "entrepreneurs" blissfully ignore.
Just a month ago notion.so had troubles with it's domain because .so belongs to Somalia, and Somalia changed some rules around registration and ownership [1]
The same, really, goes for Tonga's http://dev.to, Libya's http://bit.ly or Greenland's http://goo.gl...
[1] https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1360239738020634629
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#103Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think I'm old in that I was thinking how would I write this emoji email address on paper. Also I can just imagine the joys of form validation when you add an emoji into the email address. On the other hand I doubt most email harvesting bots crawling the web would be configured to recognize an emoji email.
I'm not old and I hate it. I don't even know how to insert an emoji on a computer.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#105This service should come with a big fat warning that the emoji email addresses should never be used for anything remotely serious. Running an email service is not, by any means, a 'tiny project'. I would never pay, nor rely on an e-mail service that is effectively a one-men side project. I just took a quick check on the 'mailbox' domain (I can't paste emoji here on HN). There seems to be no DMARC, no MTA-STS and no T…
This service doesn’t support even sending, just receiving. So I don’t think there is DKIM even considered.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#106There's a big downside to using .kz in that the registry has a policy (as per https://nic.kz/rules/ ) that .kz hostnames must relate to "Internet resources" located on hardware and software located within the territory of Kazakhstan. I think the OP is OK as it appears the IP addresses of both the A and MX records are located within Kazakhstan, but something to be aware of if you think registering a .kz is a fun idea(…
This is something to keep in mind with all TLDs really. They're not all created equal and can be subject to rules specific to their operators. Have to do your homework before you buy that cute domain.
Like how many UK businesses and individuals had to give up their .eu domain name after leaving the EU.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#107> 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…
Is this some sort of abuse protection, where people use gmail as free storage?
Gmail already is free storage, AFAIK it shares you data quota with you Google drive account.
Most likely this is a 'mail-loop' prevention. If you setup two accounts that forward to each other, then emails will be stuck in an infinite loop. Inject a couple of multi-megabyte emails into that loop and you can take down the entire service. This is effectively a DOS attack.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#108And now, I own yet another domain name. At least this one is so that my kid can have a very unique email address. That’s some high quality tween cred.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#109There's a big downside to using .kz in that the registry has a policy (as per https://nic.kz/rules/ ) that .kz hostnames must relate to "Internet resources" located on hardware and software located within the territory of Kazakhstan. I think the OP is OK as it appears the IP addresses of both the A and MX records are located within Kazakhstan, but something to be aware of if you think registering a .kz is a fun idea(…
> There's a big downside to using .kz in that the registry has a policy (as per https://nic.kz/rules/ ) that .kz hostnames must relate to "Internet resources" located on hardware and software located within the territory of Kazakhstan. Any country TLD is a potential risk that most western "entrepreneurs" blissfully ignore. Just a month ago notion.so had troubles with it's domain because .so belongs to Somalia, and So…
Aka why I mainly stick with .com
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#110Earlier 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?
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