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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 Biganon »

flal_ wrote: post #65
EugeneOZ wrote: post #31

> 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

Pretty stupid of your university to give you this address. Sure it's technically valid, but they know perfectly well it will be refused almost everywhere, and even when not explicitly refused, it will cause bugs. Being technically correct is useless if you're the only one doing it.

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

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Post by MrsPeaches »

duiker101 wrote: post #140
jefe_ wrote: post #112

The 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…

I use an email address that ends in .io and the amount of people that still ask me ".io? are you sure that's correct?" never ceases to amaze me.

Just FYI, .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory, which has a less than savoury history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory

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

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Post by Uberphallus »

londons_explore wrote: post #179
tialaramex wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The EU continues to control .eu because it is available only to EU citizens. Nothing changed. Your surprise exactly reflects the typical beliefs of a Brexit supporter, you thought the idea is you get to keep all the benefits you had before, and also you get rid of any downsides you didn't like, and somehow it's the EU's job to help you achieve this after you leave. That didn't make any sense in 2016, and it still did…

But this policy doesn't make sense for the EU either. They lose domain registration revenue. Thousands companies migrating to a new domain name will lead to confusion for EU citizens too, etc. It just seems like a case of "we want it to be as painful as possible for you, even if we have to take a bit of additional pain for us too".

> They lose domain registration revenue.

I think only micronations have a significant revenue coming from tlds (e.g. Tuvalu)

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

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Post by altgans »

Why stop at emojis? Why use the aubergine emoji when you can instead use ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]? There is even an anti-aubergine [2]!

In my opinion there is an untapped marked here. And it also is a "full circle" moment - i bet in the next millennium emojis will also be counted as hieroglyphs.

1: https://unicode-table.com/en/130BA/

2: https://unicode-table.com/en/130B9/

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

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Post by kwhitefoot »

Invictus0 wrote: post #216
ethbr0 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And for a long time, no one used email for anything important. Very few new things emerge feature-complete.

It amazes me how people on HN can handwave away these huge concerns. Have you met human beings? The users just sees "email" and thinks it's exactly like gmail except with a funky emoji in it. It's only a matter of time before someone tries to pay their taxes with this.

How do you pay your taxes with email?

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

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Post by akx »

kozak wrote: post #152
jefe_ wrote: post #112

The 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…

By the way, we already have an "emoji button" on our keyboards: on Windows, it's the Win+. keystroke. Try it if your Windows 10 is updated enough.

That UI is hilarious (for a given value of hilarious) in the sense that the search for emojis uses whichever input language you're using, even if your UI language is something else.

So, for instance to find the light bulb emoji, I need to start typing "valo" (light in Finnish), which really threw me off at first.

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

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Post by hedora »

LeonM wrote: post #97

This 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…

If enough people start using it, the big email providers will follow, or the new service will get around to fixing it.

It’ll work out either way.

I’m not going to shed a tear for gmail if they have to start putting up with someone else’s busted non-standard email infrastructure. They should be able to get what they give.

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

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Post by boogies »

gnull wrote: post #225
scaladev wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple of alternatives for Linux users. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#Emoji_input The kitty terminal emulator supports this out of the box (it also works on two other platforms): https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Ctrl+Shift+U opens a Unicode input panel with fuzzy search by symbol code or name.

I use Compose key for this, surprised nobody mentioned it here yet. This way it works in all X11 apps (Sway supports this out of the box as well), with no need for extra software or some specific desktop environment. Just put something like : "" : "" : "" in your ~/.XCompose. Yes, you have to put all the emojis you want there manually, but I use very few of them so it works for me. EDIT: HN removed the emojis from my…

My n00buntu derivative has some emojis and other logograms out of the box, eg. lines 326–337 of /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:

      
             : ""   U262D # HAMMER AND SICKLE
                         : "Ⓐ"   U24B6 # CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
                      : "♥"   U2665 # BLACK HEART SUIT
 
            : ""   U263A # WHITE SMILING FACE
             : ""   U2639 # WHITE FROWNING FACE
          : ""      # PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION
 
   
                   : ""  U1F4A9 # PILE OF POO
 
                         : ""  U1F595 # REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED
      
             : ""  U1F596 # RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS
Unbutchered: http://ix.io/2SsC
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