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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 AnIdiotOnTheNet »

capableweb wrote: post #292
spoonjim wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful using illegitimate car rental codes. Sometimes they look so cheap because they cancel a lot of your insurances, because your employer carries those insurances itself. So if you crash or the car is damaged, the clerk says, “Don’t worry Hertz Corporate will pick that up” but of course when they discover you are not an employee they will not.

I'm sorry, did you reply to the wrong comment? I'm trying to understand where "illegitimate car rental codes" comes from here, as I never mentioned that or anything related to it. I agree with you, just trying to understand how it's connected to what I wrote initially.

They are referencing the line about the employee discount.

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

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Post by Ductapemaster »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #168
tadzik_ wrote: post #151

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Hell, booking.com will even tell you that "your address looks incorrect" (sometimes, I got it once out of two bookings made on a single day), if you dare to use your own domain .com. They used to nag me about "ohh, are you sure it's not tadzik_@gmail.com"? And I'm not sure what's worse.

You got nothing on my firstname@lastname.technology email. Can't register at half the sites, and if you can register sometimes you can't log in. Banana Republic, in particular, lets me log in through one login flow, but not the one that's integrated into the checkout process.

Ah! What a coincidence — I registered my Banana Republic account with a gmail "+" email (eg, my_email+bananarepublic@gmail.com) as is my standard practice with retail accounts, and I have the same login issues. It's quite odd, but I'm glad it's not just me!

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

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Post by prostanac »

capableweb wrote: post #292
spoonjim wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful using illegitimate car rental codes. Sometimes they look so cheap because they cancel a lot of your insurances, because your employer carries those insurances itself. So if you crash or the car is damaged, the clerk says, “Don’t worry Hertz Corporate will pick that up” but of course when they discover you are not an employee they will not.

I'm sorry, did you reply to the wrong comment? I'm trying to understand where "illegitimate car rental codes" comes from here, as I never mentioned that or anything related to it. I agree with you, just trying to understand how it's connected to what I wrote initially.

They are talking about this line:

> Me: sure, can you remind me of the employee discount again?

Which suggests that you would/did ask for (an employee) discount code when renting from that company.

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

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Post by vlunkr »

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…

Come to HN for the news, stay for the short fiction. Well done.

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

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Post by alibarber »

tialaramex wrote: post #161
londons_explore wrote: post #127

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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.

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…

The EU domain is available to EU residents and citizens, not just citizens. I as a British citizen and EU resident am entitled to one (not that I have bothered - someone got the one I wanted first :O )

I guess an EU citizen living in the UK could also hold them on behalf of UK based UK citizens. Thinking about it this situation does seem a little convoluted...

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

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Post by devoutsalsa »

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…

>> Maybe the floor can be a table

Why wouldn’t you throw stuff all over the floor. It’s the biggest shelf in the room.

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

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Post by KorfmannArno »

capableweb wrote: post #187
enriquto wrote: post #185

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Why "still" ? Is there anything wrong in using the filesystem as a database when it suits to do so ?

Nope, I'm not implying it's bad, just that they used to do that and they still do that to this day. I have nothing against storing data in files. In fact, I do that all the time myself too.

Don't databases also store data in files or am I missing the point?

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Post by MrsPeaches »

swilliamsio wrote: post #254
MrsPeaches wrote: post #234

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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

Please don't tell me there exists genuine attempts to "cancel" the .io domain.

Sorry maybe I missed the memo, but is this how things get “cancelled”?

I was just pointing out that the domain is tied to a sad history.

At no point do I advocate for/against using it, nor did I pass any judgment on people who choose to use it.

The only opinion expressed in my comments is that the way the British and American governments have behaved is bad. If you take issue with that, let’s discuss but please don’t put words in my mouth.

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

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Post by lenkite »

LeonM wrote: post #128
kureikain wrote: post #115

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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.

Yep, this is going to bomb big time in the next year or even less. No doubt there will be fodder for another HN post..
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