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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 ezekg »

jfk13 wrote: post #299
vulcan01 wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cmd-space launches Spotlight. Ctrl-space switches the input layout. Ctrl-Cmd-Space launches the emoji viewer (even in Firefox...)

Not for me. (I suspect the details of this vary between system versions, and they certainly depend on settings chosen in System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts.)

Works fine for me in latest Firefox. I've never had it not work in a specific app. Though, sometimes the keyboard crashes and doesn't come back up until a restart (that could be the fault of my Ryzen Hackintosh, though).

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

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Post by dheera »

This seems ripe for phishing, similar to @аррӏе.com (which isn't @apple.com -- go ahead and check) and someone actually did this once. [0] There are lots of emojis that are hard to tell apart from each other.

[0] https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/

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

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Post by dmingod666 »

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…

Very well written.

Bill burr on his podcast was talking about, when he first discovered reddit. He couldn't understand what it was... He then realized later.. "it's a site for people that really like to type.. that's what it is.."

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

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Post by layer8 »

ganzsz wrote: post #208
layer8 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RFC 6531 adds support for internationalized local-parts. Support in actual software may be lacking though.

I sometimes run into sites that won't even allow a + in the name part of an email address. And yes, I use gmail and the + functionality extensively.

In the early days I used "/" in local parts, which is syntactically valid. That turned out to be a bad idea, as some mail software was mapping local-parts to file names...

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

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Post by motoboi »

shp0ngle wrote: post #105
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…

This service doesn’t support even sending, just receiving. So I don’t think there is DKIM even considered.

It needs DKIM so other people cannot send e-mail pretending to be you.

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

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Post by sitzkrieg »

simias wrote: post #293
sitzkrieg wrote: post #233

the author may like to know Cyrillic doesn't automatically mean Russian

The website is in Russian though. The author probably knew that because he had to use some online translation tool to go through the purchase process. Fun fact: the Kazakh government decided to replace Cyrillic with Latin for the Kazakh language. Apparently the process is supposed to end in 2025, but I have no idea how widely adopted the new alphabet is at the moment.

ah wow neat

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Post by hbosch »

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.

I have a very short .co - gets 'em every time.

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

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Post by rhythmofrest »

simias wrote: post #289

I'm genuinely impressed by the author's willingness to come up with such a silly idea, go through with it, implement a completely barebones website that won't even let you send emails from the addresses and starts selling subscriptions for $10/year. I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely impressed. If it were me I'd spend 2 years mulling about it and never actually do it because I'd be worried about not managing to make…

I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

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Post by Miraste »

MrsPeaches wrote: post #308
swilliamsio wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> is this how things get “cancelled”

Yes, associating tangentially-related controversies with previously innocuous topics is how things get canceled. Bringing up topics like this on a post about emoji emails implies that you want the conversation to flow in a certain direction; that's how conversation works. It's only missing Twitter and the word "problematic."

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

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Post by GekkePrutser »

dhosek wrote: post #219
jfk13 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not always; that's app-specific, not a system-wide setting.

I think it is system-wide. At least I've not encountered any input field where it doesn't work. Even Microsoft Office, which uses its own input routines, supports it.

It doesn't work in every app sadly. Qt based apps for example
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