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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 Theory5 »

petercooper wrote: post #35

There's a big downside to using .kz in that the registry has a policy (as per https://nic.kz/rules/ ) that .kz hostnames must relate to "Internet resources" located on hardware and software located within the territory of Kazakhstan. I think the OP is OK as it appears the IP addresses of both the A and MX records are located within Kazakhstan, but something to be aware of if you think registering a .kz is a fun idea(…

I learned some countries have things like this after an article last month where someone traced an IP range used by palor or another organization like that to a country with similar rules, and filed a complaint with the company that leased it, who revoked the range. (Going from memory here, sorry if I'm getting things wrong).

Especially given Ive heard some of these TLDs are cheaper to encourage their use, people who want to run services on these should be careful even if enforcement is often lax or nonexistent until a complaint is filed.

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

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Post by mihaaly »

kureikain wrote: post #115
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…

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.

That is all until The Queen snatches up that reserved Liz@[crown].kz, after that the MI5 will buy and run the [union-jack].uk for all governmental parties and typing in very.important.person@parliament.uk istead of [serious-face-with-a-tie]@[big-ben] will be considered rude in high circles, believe me that!

;)

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

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Post by dcminter »

lbhdc wrote: post #188
lights0123 wrote: post #180

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GNOME has Ctrl+period.

Does it? I am in stock gnome and this shortcut isn't bound by default. What distro are you using?

I believe it has to be a GTK app - which almost none of the things I use on a daily basis are. Try in gedit or something like that.

My daily drivers are IntelliJ, Firefox, Chrome, and Terminator so it's not super useful to me... :'(

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

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Post by Cockbrand »

School-Cotton wrote: post #116
carstenhag wrote: post #26

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For anyone outside the german-speaking countres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps -- In german: Konzentrationslager, abbreviated with KZ. Similarly, never use abbrevations like SS, NS, AH, HH, HJ in Germany. Also, some of these are forbidden on our license plates.

Why is Konzentrationslager KZ rather than KL ?

Good question! German Wikipedia says because it's got a harsher sound to it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konzentrationslager#Nationalso...

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

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Post by ghoomketu »

This guy seems crazy about registering weird domain names. netflix.soy, google(.hebrew).. good to see him making his money back and kudos for doing the jokes so thouroghly.

I too have such crazy stupid ideas all the time, but it's one thing to think about it and another to actually finish it and start marketing it with videos on producthunt and tiktok.

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

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Post by kube-system »

prepend wrote: post #162
abdullahkhalids wrote: post #98

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Is this some sort of abuse protection, where people use gmail as free storage?

I don’t think so as email forwarding is pretty basic and it’s blocked even for tiny messages. I suspect it was just some stupid developer pre-optimizing, thinking they were clever and not thinking through use cases. “Every email from me to me will skip external routing and just get flagged in storage; therefore, any email from and to me and not through that process must be fraud and we’ll just save the user from that…

IIRC, at one point in time, there was a way to evade spam filtering by setting the “from” and “to” to the recipient. Maybe this has something to do with that

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

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Post by ganzsz »

layer8 wrote: post #90
Tepix wrote: post #61

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When email addresses were standardized, unicode wasn't around. For domains and hostnames we have punycode which maps unicode characters onto the ASCII charset, which is why it works. This does not apply to the user portion of the email address. Emoji as part of the display name should work, i.e. "Emoji"

RFC 6531 adds support for internationalized local-parts. Support in actual software may be lacking though.

I sometimes run into sites that won't even allow a + in the name part of an email address.

And yes, I use gmail and the + functionality extensively.

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

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Post by MegaButts »

rendall wrote: post #175
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.

Edit: Alas, it does not work on HN. Pity.

Where does this work?

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

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Post by eloisant »

capableweb wrote: post #165
growt wrote: post #138

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If you asked 100 people in Germany(!) what "KZ" stands for the result would be something like 95 say "Konzentrationslager", 5 say "I don't know" and 0 "ISO code for Kazakhstan".

Indeed. But if you ask the whole world (as we're on the internet), 1% might recognize it as "Konzentrationslager", 2% might recognize it as Kazakhstan and the rest have no idea. So for general internet usage, I think it's fine. We're not modelling the internet after German customs after all.

No we're modelling the internet after US customs, which is why boobs are banned from mainstream Internet services and have to hide in the porn.

I'm not sure we're better off.

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