I'm still don't know why emoji's are a thing.
People like to communicate their emotions through cute pictograms, it's not difficult to understand.
I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
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#122Why can't you pick an emoji as username
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think the average person would know what a ccTLD is or that kz refers to Kazakhstan?
I think the average internet user is familiar with country-specific TLDs.
I think the average Internet user is not familiar with country-specific TLDs except for their own country and a few others. Most people do not realise that .me, .tv, .cc, are country TLDs, they think they are country-independent TLDs similarly to .com, .net, .org, and in practice they may well be used more by organisations and people that have no relation to those countries than by those that do. In this case even users who are aware that they are strictly speaking country TLDs have reason to assume the same applies: .kz was not picked because of any relation between Mailoji and Kazakhstan. It was picked for technical reasons, but users would not know of those technical reasons, they would have no reason to think it was picked for anything other than .kz being seen as a good name.
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#124> 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…
This is the most confuse part of gmail. I run an email forwarding service and I got this exact problem.
I ended up build a "Test button" where customer click, then we send an email from our own address and let them know why we did that and also link to your link.
Gmail is no doubt very useful but they have quite of few of quirks.
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#125There'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.
The most fun TLD is .su
Someone on IRC managed to register "kremvax.su" a few years ago and gave anyone in the channel who wanted them email addresses (so I briefly had swiley@kremvax.su for example.)
Unfortunately the were asked for some documentation they couldn't provide a few months later and it got shut down.
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#126My hat off to tinyprojects. This is a very cool project and I'm so happy to see they wrote this at the end: > But they're fun, and I think tech should be more fun. Apparently I run https://hanami.run an email forwarding service and I also say that https://hanami.run/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/#the-future > At the same time, we like to make email more fun. We are commited to build tools that help you process email e…
Do you have some protection filters on for https://pix.fastloop.xyz?
I cautiously opened the site and was basically prepared to be greeted with (child) pornography. How do you prevent that?
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm really surprised they didn't do the logical thing and grandfather all existing domains in when the UK left the EU.
It seems like the policy was simply designed to frustrate as many people as possible for no real gain for the EU.
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#128This 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…
What you say is entirely true. But in practice, this is for fun, no one gonna use their emoji email for anything important. But it's great to have an emoji email to give to medium when they ask for it? Isn't that great.
> no one gonna use their emoji email for anything important
I disagree.
We, as technical HN crowd, know not to do this this. But any non-technical person who sees 'get a next-gen email addresses' being advertised for 9,99/year will expect more. A lot more.
Do not underestimate how naive and demanding consumers can be.
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#129The customer's words echoed in his mind. 'robert at lightbulb emoji dot kz, but with a real lightbulb emoji.' The clerk had registered thousands, maybe tens of thousands of e-mails into the Nordstrom Rack Nordy Rewards program, and he had seen it all, but this, this was something entirely new. This wasn't the single letter username or the overly sexual address or the gmail address with the plus sign, all mildly inter…
This is art. I worked as a cashier for a couple years, and this feels like a fever dream about those days.
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#130> complete with Japanese voice actor saying the words "Mailoji"
Almost spit out my coffee laughing at this