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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 usmannk »

cmehdy wrote: post #261
Theory5 wrote: post #190

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As a security person its hard as heck training (some of) our users to understand how basic domain formats work. We use a phishing simulation service, and outside of certain content,putting part or all of our company name in the domain but adding other words/underscores/etc is what tricks a lot of people. I tend to explain how it works in a basic format, and often you can see the light bulb go off when I point out how…

This stuff is not really well made for normal people, to be honest. Just look at all the discussions and troubles (tickets, misunderstandings, security risks) related to email and hyperlink parsers.. It took me a while to know that FQDNs can (and sometimest must?) start at root with a period, meaning every address you've ever typed could have finished with a period (news.ycombinator.com.) and I recall some newspaper…

> I recall some newspaper (NYT? News Yorker?) failing to test for that when people want to bypass their paywall.

For a long time I could access Bloomberg for free because they failed open when you did this

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

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Post by tener »

chias wrote: post #389
tener wrote: post #368

Huh. Neat idea, but why does emoji needs to be a part of the domain? @emojimail.com would work just fine? Plus, you can have mail aliases that way and combine multiple emoji too. @emojimail.com could be equivalent to rocket.moon@emojimail.com for compatibility purposes.

IIRC the email spec requires all characters to be ASCII. Technically your email address isn't bob@[mailbox].kz, it's bob@xn--h78h.kz which your browser and possibly some mail clients will render as bob@[mailbox].kz. But xn--h78h@emojimail.com will always just display as xn--h78h@emojimail.com. For the domain part, browsers and email providers have collectively agreed to render domains of the form xn-[stuff]-[stuff].[…

The ASCII only restriction feels very artificial. I wouldn't be surprised to find some work in progress to lift it.

Edit: yep, there is clearly work in that area and not even that recent. Of course support is spotty depending on actual software in use. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/760150/can-an-email-addr...

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

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Post by toxik »

sofixa wrote: post #111
shp0ngle wrote: post #105

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

Or SPF for that matter.

It should have an SPF record saying nobody can send as that domain.

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

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Post by t0mas88 »

jraph wrote: post #397
t0mas88 wrote: post #356

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There is an actual emoji button on new dell keyboards as well as a lock button. Not just a repurposed FN key but really a separate key with a smiley on it and one with a lock next to it. Both work without extra drivers in Windows 10.

Do you know if this key produces the regular shortcut for invoking the emoji input method in Windows, or if it has its own key code?

Not sure. And I only know how to figure that out in Linux but it's my windows work computer. Is there a windows method to see what key code the keyboard is sending?

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

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Post by taneliv »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #384
petercooper wrote: post #35

There'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(…

Uh oh. How do I find rules for other domains? I went a little batty with the .de domain years ago and have quite a few. But, I'm not in Germany. While there is a mild ethical cringe at doing this, am I running afoul of some rules that might actually bite me later?

In general, Wikipedia has some starting points for all ccTLDs, for example for .de here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.de

The information on Wikipedia itself is mostly descriptive, while the registry website or other external links should have the actual rules and restrictions.

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

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Post by Nition »

akx wrote: post #238
kozak wrote: post #152

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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.

I originally thought the typing didn't work at all, because the couple of times I tried pressing Win+. the emoji UI came up, and it said "Keep typing to find an emoji", but nothing happened when I typed.

Turns out the search only works when you have a text entry area selected elsewhere.

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

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Post by anderspitman »

danaliv wrote: post #322
dmingod666 wrote: post #313

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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.."

I like to think of Wikipedia as a site for people who like to correct other people.

One of my favorite reddit shower thoughts:

"Wikipedia built the biggest modern information hub using nothing but nerds' need to correct each other."

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

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Post by dhosek »

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

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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.)

It's the standard behavior. If you do something to modify or override it of course it won't work, but that's like changing the keyboard to Dvorak and saying that pressing the g key gives an i instead so you can't count on getting a g when you press the g key.
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