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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 dkdbejwi383 »

mikey_p wrote: post #359
duiker101 wrote: post #140

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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 simple email address: firstname @ (nickname for firstname) + (last initial) .net And it's amazing how hard it is to explain this to people over the phone or in store for email receipts, etc. I'm shocked how few folks seems to be vaguely aware that .net as TLD exists even though it's one of the original TLDs from when they were first created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net

Yes, I just posted something similar. My domain is initial + surname, and the most common response I get when giving my email is that the person hasn't heard of "that one" before.

To make matters worse, I chose a slightly uncommon tld.

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

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Post by juliend2 »

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…

There should be a museum for those kinds of HN thread comments.

This kind of prose is truly hilarious.

Thank you.

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

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Post by prepend »

kube-system wrote: post #207
prepend wrote: post #162

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I don’t think so as email forwarding is pretty basic and it’s blocked even for tiny messages. I suspect it was just some stupid developer pre-optimizing, thinking they were clever and not thinking through use cases. “Every email from me to me will skip external routing and just get flagged in storage; therefore, any email from and to me and not through that process must be fraud and we’ll just save the user from that…

IIRC, at one point in time, there was a way to evade spam filtering by setting the “from” and “to” to the recipient. Maybe this has something to do with that

Perhaps but this is where gmail is being stupid as they should be able to authenticate that the message actually was genuinely generated from a gmail account.

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

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Post by dkdbejwi383 »

tadzik_ wrote: post #151
duiker101 wrote: post #140

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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.

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.

Same using me@domain.cricket or similar. "Do you mean me@domain.com?"

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

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Post by lobstrosity420 »

dcminter wrote: post #203
lbhdc wrote: post #188

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Does it? I am in stock gnome and this shortcut isn't bound by default. What distro are you using?

I believe it has to be a GTK app - which almost none of the things I use on a daily basis are. Try in gedit or something like that. My daily drivers are IntelliJ, Firefox, Chrome, and Terminator so it's not super useful to me... :'(

Check out this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1162/emoji-selector/

It implements a system level emoji keyboard that you can trigger with . It works pretty great and on all apps, I use it a lot.

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

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Post by ben0x539 »

capableweb wrote: post #47
shakow wrote: post #41

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KZ is the shorthand for Konzentrationslager, i.e. concentration camp.

Ok, and .kz is the ccTLD for Kazakhstan. You think people can't realize the difference?

I'm sure people can realize the difference, but I'd expect the thought process in Germany to go something like

1) hmm, they have .kz as the TLD

2) apparently thats kazakhstan? TIL

3) kinda weird that they, not being from kazakhstan, would choose to have that as their TLD. Maybe they're using it with another meaning in mind.

3.5) Let's give them the benefit of the doubt but remain wary of potential secret nazis, as one has to, here.

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

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Post by tenacious_tuna »

rhythmofrest wrote: post #318
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?"

I've come to believe that there's a certain amount of insanity required to be a great entrepreneur. Like Jobs or Musk--their personal qualities aside, they both had arguably legitimately insane visions that they refused to let people talk them out of.

The side effect is they're also crazy in other ways (Musk-time and the billionaire-playboy-cyrptocoin-gambler being easy examples), but I think it really does take someone who operates with a totally different set of constraints on the world to pull Really Cool Stuff off. Like reusable rockets. Or electric performance cars. Or an incredibly versatile computer that fits in your pocket (while also giving the middle finger to Flash, the incumbent web media tech at the time).

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

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Post by garmaine »

codetrotter wrote: post #361
Razengan wrote: post #337

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The iOS and I believe macOS emoji picker let’s you use any language to search for emojis. ハート brings up hearts for example.

But you have to switch to that language first. For example on my iPhone if I type in Norwegian and jump to emoji then I can type “hjerte” and find the heart. But if I type “heart” then there are no results when the language is Norwegian. So if I want to search for emojis by English name, then I must first ensure that my keyboard is in English. And this is good I think, but wanted to point it out.

On my phone at least (latest iOS) it will search any installed keyboard languages.
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