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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 mleonhard »

LeonM wrote: post #97

This service should come with a big fat warning that the emoji email addresses should never be used for anything remotely serious. Running an email service is not, by any means, a 'tiny project'. I would never pay, nor rely on an e-mail service that is effectively a one-men side project. I just took a quick check on the 'mailbox' domain (I can't paste emoji here on HN). There seems to be no DMARC, no MTA-STS and no T…

DMARK, DKIM, and SPF are only for sending. Mailoji doesn't support sending yet.

TLS and MTA-STS are for receiving and would be good to set up, eventually.

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

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Post by jiggunjer »

Grakel wrote: post #444
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'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.

you must not have kids. If my wife and I have relatively large personal budgets to spend on ourselves, it would feel like we are denying our kids a nicer holiday or a nicer college education.

Unless of course you're rich enough to afford everything.

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

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Post by Grakel »

jiggunjer wrote: post #534
Grakel wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

you must not have kids. If my wife and I have relatively large personal budgets to spend on ourselves, it would feel like we are denying our kids a nicer holiday or a nicer college education. Unless of course you're rich enough to afford everything.

I have a one year old, and I grew up poor. We still don't have a lot. But at some point you don't have a money management issue, you have an income issue.

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

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Post by jiggunjer »

oauea wrote: post #296
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.

> Try it if your Windows 10 is updated enough And if it's not, please go update your Windows. You should not be reading HN with out outdated operating system.

laughs in Windows 7

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

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Post by spullara »

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 once registered 60 domains just to reproduce bitsquatting.

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

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Post by _k0o1 »

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?"

Personally, if my partner dropped £1000 on something goofy like this, and all bills were paid, I'd probably cheer them on. There's nothing wrong with spending money on something that's got no purpose other than making people smile/laugh/what have you.

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

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Post by jhardy54 »

asciimov wrote: post #490
Grakel wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Not being snarky: What's the alternative? Like, what would happen if you didn't do that?

I ask because my wife and I spend money however we like, and I think it'd be quite strange if she checked in with me before spending $150. Is there some useful context or previous over-spending that you're solving, or is it something you'd recommend for everyone?

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

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Post by ben0x539 »

atleta wrote: post #394
ben0x539 wrote: post #377

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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 on…

It's not whether they realize what it means as per the intent of the service provider, it's about what people think it means for other people. Since we're talking about an email service. I.e. I guess it's one thing to email someone in Germany from an .kz email address and a completely different one to have customers (well, at least non-neonazi ones) signing up for such and address. Even if they do realize what kz sta…

Ah, sorry, when I said "they" I meant a user of a .kz email address, not the service provider.
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