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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 sangnoir »

tiborsaas wrote: post #381
rhythmofrest wrote: post #318

Earlier 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?"

A common wallet with a SO freaks me out :)

You don't have to go all-in, but a common wallet is very useful as a wash account for common expenses.

Having an account just for expenses, with no overdraft, that's usually at $0.00 balance is useful for other purposes too (ACH pull is dangerous! Especially when everyone who has ever looked at your check can do it)

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

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Post by tinco »

dreadlordbone wrote: post #438
tinco wrote: post #383

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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?

The British?

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Post by baybal2 »

tenacious_tuna wrote: post #378
rhythmofrest wrote: post #318

Earlier 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…

There are way more insane people in mental institutions than insane billionaires.

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

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Post by Grakel »

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'll never understand this, but I see it all the time. People should have shared money, and they should also have their own money. Does my wife like it when I buy myself expensive toys? I have no idea, it's irrelevant unless I stop covering the bills.

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

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Post by Symbiote »

easyKL wrote: post #358

TLD .cf supports emoji and can be bought for free (up to 12 months). Now good luck finding a reseller that processes the purchase of an emoji domain name.....

I just bought (not with the free deal) a one-letter emoji .cf domain name. €9 at Freenom.com.

(It would probably have been better to use the free deal for a few months first.)

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Post by beowulfey »

londons_explore wrote: post #179
tialaramex wrote: post #161

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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…

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".

.EU has a functional purpose, and to grandfather in those names would lead to disruption of the functional meaning.

Think of it as a UX reason rather than financial.

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

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Post by tener »

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 guess software dev can afford to blow 1000$/year on silly side projects. Especially seeing how he got back significant portion of his expenditure. Being single or not has nothing to do with that? It sure seems fair to agree on spending policy with your significant other beforehand, but other than that...

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Post by DavidAdams »

Theory5 wrote: post #190
capableweb wrote: post #169

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Yeah. Try using wildcard email accounts together with a uncommon TLD, and people ask me if I work at their place all the time. Last time I booked a car at Hertz: > Me: My email is hertz@capableweb.work > Agent: Woah, you work here at Hertz? That's so cool > Me: sure, can you remind me of the employee discount again? So many email validations fail with a uncommon gTLD that I started switching everything to a .com doma…

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…

I registered .com domains with my kids' names when they were born, and when one of them discovered that they could get the email address gmail@hisname.com he was stoked. His friends don't understand how it's possible for that email address to work. As a practical joke, he always says "what do you mean? Doesn't gmail@yourname.com not work too?"

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

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Post by magneticnorth »

simias wrote: post #439
kalipso wrote: post #431

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 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.

Diamond hands appears to be taken everywhere listed by the mainstream emoji registration sites, sadly. It was a good idea
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