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

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Post by montyanderson » Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

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 gnabgib » Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 11:31 PM UTC

Enormous discussion at the time (2021)[0](1683 points, 626 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26422799

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

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Post by ktosobcy » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 1:10 AM UTC

gnabgib wrote: post #2

Enormous discussion at the time (2021)[0](1683 points, 626 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26422799

I wonder how many users does he have now :-)

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Post by xyst » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 1:23 AM UTC

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Post by boomboomsubban » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 1:41 AM UTC

gnabgib wrote: post #2

Enormous discussion at the time (2021)[0](1683 points, 626 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26422799

I find it amusing thar about a sixth of the comments are on how couples should handle their finances. Nobody could have guessed that.

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Post by aidomi » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 1:47 AM UTC

Does anyone know what happened to TinyProjects? I looked forwards to reading his updates and it looks like he stopped a while ago…

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

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Post by earslap » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 2:00 AM UTC

I would not trust Kazakhstan to honor the TLD registrations if this took off and made some noise. Reminds me of Libya taking ownership of all those trendy .ly domains claiming you have to obey Libyan laws and regulations to operate them. Still a fun idea taken quite far!

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Post by ramijames » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 2:01 AM UTC

This was a fun read.

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Post by zer00eyz » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 2:01 AM UTC

>> Turns out emoji domain names score very highly for spam and were going to be blocked to high heaven.

I turns out their mailbox.ws domain doesn't have SPF or good DKIM records. Might be part of the problem why google chucks it.

Email is a shit show. I feel like getting emails out reliably is akin to black magic now. Without the right incantations your never going to know what happened or why.

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Post by freeone3000 » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 2:12 AM UTC

earslap wrote: post #7

I would not trust Kazakhstan to honor the TLD registrations if this took off and made some noise. Reminds me of Libya taking ownership of all those trendy .ly domains claiming you have to obey Libyan laws and regulations to operate them. Still a fun idea taken quite far!

>claiming you have to obey Libyan laws and regulations to operate them

It being a CCTLD, this is a true claim. At a basic level, these tlds belong to the country, and that country sets the rules. Libya reclaiming from ICANN was a jerk move but their claims are absolutely right. (Most cctlds already have this requirement.)