I would recommend advertising that at https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/
the people there are f'ing addicted to the rocktes emoji and dont care how much to pay to have it appear somewhere
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
#432Earlier quoted context omitted.
You need a TLD but IIRC, the second level is not required. So you could have something like ` http://google `, which I think, Google actually had at some point in the past. Cannot however find anything related to this anymore.
The .ai TLD has an A record, so http://ai/ works.
Yes, this I understand. But not the other way around.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#433I would recommend advertising that at https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/ the people there are f'ing addicted to the rocktes emoji and dont care how much to pay to have it appear somewhere
hah
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#434Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't work in every app sadly. Qt based apps for example
Hmm, I guess I've never used any Qt-based apps.
I use two now, Quassel which is an IRC client, and QtPass which is a password manager. Both are cross-platform which is great because I don't use just Mac. I use pretty much everything. Mac, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD.
That means most of the built-in facilities of the Mac (like iCloud Keychain) are no good for me. Because they only work on Apple OSes.
But anyway both these apps don't support this. When I press the keystroke, nothing happens. I suppose it only works for apps that use the native text input boxes, or that have built specific support for the feature like browsers.
In my password manager I can do without Emoji, though it allows for text comments and it would be handy there. In IRC it's quite handy to have the option these days.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 feel like he could've got it going with 5 or 10 emoji and spent a lot less. Also impressed with his commercial.
I thought about that but I think the main advantage of doing it this way is to corner the market somewhat. You get all the "good" ones and make it harder for anybody to clone your idea.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#436I'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 keep expecting this to tie back to a Borat sequel.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 some…
Steve Job didn’t invent the smartphone and Elon Musk didn’t invent the electric car, they did both make those things cool.
Steve Jobs also had a treatable form of pancreatic cancer and died from it, because he refused traditional medicine.
You can point to countless inventions and advances in humanity that are not due to crazy asshole geniuses. What happens to people is that the better you are at something, the more willing they are to forgive your flaws. This allows those flaws to grow and grow, to the point where you’re accusing random people that insult you of being pedophiles. But these flaws are not a requisite part of being driven and not giving up.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#438Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
And so it should be. The Brexit should be as painful as possible for the UK. The more the UK is reminded of what they gave up, and what they will be missing, the better, as it positions them better for reentry. Who cares about domain registration revenue? The only reason it isn't free is because of the administrative hassle of distributing frivolous domain registrations. If EU citizens are confused about UK companies…
Who hurt you?
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#439I would recommend advertising that at https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/ the people there are f'ing addicted to the rocktes emoji and dont care how much to pay to have it appear somewhere
I was actually just thinking that he should probably register the [diamond][hands].kk domain, there's got to be some demand for it given how much it gets spammed over there.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#440Why 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/
I built a site for that: https://weirdonecharacterdomainsuperstore.com
On my machine (Ubuntu, Chrome), every special character is literally just a rectangle. Makes the website look a bit less interesting that way ;)
I am not techie enough to be able to fix the view at my end.