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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 mynameisvlad »

imwillofficial wrote: post #414
mynameisvlad wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everything has to be “cancelled” but if you are buying a domain, you should probably inform yourselves of what that TLD represents since people you’re communicating with might and might not look too favorably on its use.

Yeah, .io represents “Input/Output” as much as .net represents “Network” Domains often have little connection to their intended meaning.

Let's say you're running a startup and decided to be hip and get an io domain. You reach out to a potential major client who happens to be of Chagossian descent.

They probably wouldn't care for your interpretation of the domain, they just see you supporting the people who relocated their entire group of people from their native homeland.

So, yes, you should be well aware of what the io domain represents and who you're supporting when buying one. Because it might bite you in the ass down the line and could have easily been avoided by just getting a different one without a storied past.

No "cancelling" going on, but just like a lot of other things, it's a risk that should be taken into account.

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Post by rileytg »

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?"

It's a time thing also "Sweetie, I don't want to go to your parents for dinner b/c I'm building "

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Post by lupire »

Miraste wrote: post #319
MrsPeaches wrote: post #308

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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."

Are you cancelling free speech?

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Post by spoonjim »

lupire wrote: post #476
spoonjim wrote: post #276

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Be careful using illegitimate car rental codes. Sometimes they look so cheap because they cancel a lot of your insurances, because your employer carries those insurances itself. So if you crash or the car is damaged, the clerk says, “Don’t worry Hertz Corporate will pick that up” but of course when they discover you are not an employee they will not.

No one wants car rental insurance anyway. Especially not Hertz, who doesn't honor claims anyway and is thankfully bankrupt.

I fucked up a truck and they covered it without questions, I guess their customer experience was highly variable.

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Post by enriquto »

emodendroket wrote: post #457
enriquto wrote: post #42

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Notice that HN already does support unicode: α β γ é ö 本 It actively filters out a small part of it, mostly emojis (which I think that it is a good thing to do).

What exactly are we afraid will happen if someone uses an emoji instead of typing :) ?

it's not really a big deal. Just like not allowing bold or colored text in the comments.

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Post by _AzMoo »

konschubert wrote: post #460
_AzMoo wrote: post #452

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When your family has limited resources and needs to prioritise it's frustrating when somebody chooses to use those resources on frivolity.

You can still have personal budgets, even if they are very small. Heck, when things are tight, even having 10 Euro personal "fun money" a month for each partner can give a bit of freedom.

For sure, but the original article and the comment I replied to are talking about relatively expensive spends.

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Post by sideproject »

For anyone who is going down the impulse-buying of many domains (me!) and then finding yourself having too many unused domains, I created a little tool to make use of those unused domains (and maybe even monetize them)

https://www.newsy.co

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Post by asciimov »

Grakel wrote: post #444
rhythmofrest wrote: post #318

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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.

It's for family budgeting and trust. We generally ask/inform if we are going to spend more than $100 on any given project/item. This helps both of us realize if it's a need or want. That way if I mention I'm going to get a new video game, I'll be stopped if its the third one in a month. Or if she wants new luggage, is it because it is needed or is it desired because it's a new color that is available.

You might make enough money to not really need this kind of consent. That's great if you do. For us, it is just a small check to help us get to our goals.

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