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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 tzfld »

kureikain wrote: post #85

My hat off to tinyprojects. This is a very cool project and I'm so happy to see they wrote this at the end: > But they're fun, and I think tech should be more fun. Apparently I run https://hanami.run an email forwarding service and I also say that https://hanami.run/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/#the-future > At the same time, we like to make email more fun. We are commited to build tools that help you process email e…

>https://pix.fastloop.xyz

Nice but I see some risks there (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26357033)

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

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Post by rorykoehler »

LeonM wrote: post #128
kureikain wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you say is entirely true. But in practice, this is for fun, no one gonna use their emoji email for anything important. But it's great to have an emoji email to give to medium when they ask for it? Isn't that great.

> no one gonna use their emoji email for anything important I disagree. We, as technical HN crowd, know not to do this this. But any non-technical person who sees 'get a next-gen email addresses' being advertised for 9,99/year will expect more. A lot more. Do not underestimate how naive and demanding consumers can be.

Caveat emptor

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

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Post by kureikain »

holistio wrote: post #126
kureikain wrote: post #85

My hat off to tinyprojects. This is a very cool project and I'm so happy to see they wrote this at the end: > But they're fun, and I think tech should be more fun. Apparently I run https://hanami.run an email forwarding service and I also say that https://hanami.run/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/#the-future > At the same time, we like to make email more fun. We are commited to build tools that help you process email e…

Do you have some protection filters on for https://pix.fastloop.xyz ? I cautiously opened the site and was basically prepared to be greeted with (child) pornography. How do you prevent that?

I rely on email spam filterting, which seems effectively filter out them. No sophisicated filtering yet. I didn't advertise it anywhere outside of Hacker News and not many people know about it yet.

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

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Post by kureikain »

tzfld wrote: post #141
kureikain wrote: post #85

My hat off to tinyprojects. This is a very cool project and I'm so happy to see they wrote this at the end: > But they're fun, and I think tech should be more fun. Apparently I run https://hanami.run an email forwarding service and I also say that https://hanami.run/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/#the-future > At the same time, we like to make email more fun. We are commited to build tools that help you process email e…

> https://pix.fastloop.xyz Nice but I see some risks there ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26357033 )

wow, thanks so much for that information. I'll have it migrate to some different domain.

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

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Post by alexmingoia »

rwmj wrote: post #144

I thought IETF had banned emoji domain names after the unicode snowman was registered? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2035572 )

I did too... I’m assuming some registrars just haven’t properly dealt with this case.

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

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Post by gadders »

duiker101 wrote: post #140
jefe_ wrote: post #112

The customer's words echoed in his mind. 'robert at lightbulb emoji dot kz, but with a real lightbulb emoji.' The clerk had registered thousands, maybe tens of thousands of e-mails into the Nordstrom Rack Nordy Rewards program, and he had seen it all, but this, this was something entirely new. This wasn't the single letter username or the overly sexual address or the gmail address with the plus sign, all mildly inter…

I use an email address that ends in .io and the amount of people that still ask me ".io? are you sure that's correct?" never ceases to amaze me.

Mine ends in .by as my surname does as well and people still say "Is that it?"

EG if my surname was "Gummersby" my email domain is "Gummers.by"

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

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Post by rorykoehler »

londons_explore wrote: post #127
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like how many UK businesses and individuals had to give up their .eu domain name after leaving the EU.

I'm really surprised they didn't do the logical thing and grandfather all existing domains in when the UK left the EU. It seems like the policy was simply designed to frustrate as many people as possible for no real gain for the EU.

It could be a fraud prevention and accidental legal misrepresentation defense mechanism to take away the .eu domains from the UK. If you go to a .eu domain and buy something you would expect not to be subject to import duties etc.

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

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Post by sybercecurity »

flal_ wrote: post #65
EugeneOZ wrote: post #31

> and yes, most form validations hate them. Big mistake of these forms. Sometimes people are enormously resistant to following the specifications.

I used to have an email address at university along the line of "f.d'a@university.edu". I couldn't make use of it, because no-one believed it was a valid address even though it is allowed by the goddam RFC. turns out you could put a lot of funky stuff in the local part of an email, spaces ? yep. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696#page-5

always relevant: "So you think you can validate email addresses": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX81WmXjPg

Which is also why proposals to put email certs (S/MIME, OpenPGP) in the DNS led to hashing the local part, as DNS only allows ASCII and is case insensitive.

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