I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by hedora » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #179

tialaramex wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The EU continues to control .eu because it is available only to EU citizens. Nothing changed. Your surprise exactly reflects the typical beliefs of a Brexit supporter, you thought the idea is you get to keep all the benefits you had before, and also you get rid of any downsides you didn't like, and somehow it's the EU's job to help you achieve this after you leave. That didn't make any sense in 2016, and it still did…

But this policy doesn't make sense for the EU either. They lose domain registration revenue. Thousands companies migrating to a new domain name will lead to confusion for EU citizens too, etc. It just seems like a case of "we want it to be as painful as possible for you, even if we have to take a bit of additional pain for us too".

They maintain sovereignty though. That’s more important than domain registration revenue.

If I somehow owned tax.gov, and was running a tax prep service from it, I doubt the “I’m grandfathered” argument would fly.

It’s likely similar to lawyers.eu (I made that domain up), etc; people should be able to expect that to be an EU based service, not something overseas.

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

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Post by fegu » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:16 PM UTC

kozak wrote: post #152

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…

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.

Thanks, did not know this. In fact, learned both Win + plus (and discovered Win + minus along the way) as well as Win + dot :)

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

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Post by mxmilkb » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:16 PM UTC

scaladev wrote: post #160

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.

A couple of alternatives for Linux users. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#Emoji_input The kitty terminal emulator supports this out of the box (it also works on two other platforms): https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Ctrl+Shift+U opens a Unicode input panel with fuzzy search by symbol code or name.

https://github.com/Mange/rofi-emoji

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

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Post by swilliamsio » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:18 PM UTC

MrsPeaches wrote: post #234

duiker101 wrote: post #140

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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.

Just FYI, .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory, which has a less than savoury history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory

Please don't tell me there exists genuine attempts to "cancel" the .io domain.

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

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Post by goldcd » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:18 PM UTC

Just wanted to say I enjoyed that story - whimsical little tech project, written up in an entertaining and informative manner.

Not that I dislike more serious stories, but nice to have a mix.

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

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Post by belval » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:21 PM UTC

akx wrote: post #238

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.

That UI is hilarious (for a given value of hilarious) in the sense that the search for emojis uses whichever input language you're using, even if your UI language is something else. So, for instance to find the light bulb emoji, I need to start typing "valo" (light in Finnish), which really threw me off at first.

The default Android keyboard has similar behaviour. I was learning Spanish so I switched my phone to Spanish then back in English at some point later. Yet the change never propagated to the keyboard for some reason so my emojis are still in Spanish.

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

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Post by hedora » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:21 PM UTC

altgans wrote: post #236

Why stop at emojis? Why use the aubergine emoji when you can instead use ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]? There is even an anti-aubergine [2]! In my opinion there is an untapped marked here. And it also is a "full circle" moment - i bet in the next millennium emojis will also be counted as hieroglyphs. 1: https://unicode-table.com/en/130BA/ 2: https://unicode-table.com/en/130B9/

Try explaining how to type “Bob@naughty-croquet-hieroglyph.kz” in mixed company.

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

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Post by belval » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:23 PM UTC

swilliamsio wrote: post #254

MrsPeaches wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just FYI, .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory, which has a less than savoury history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory

Please don't tell me there exists genuine attempts to "cancel" the .io domain.

Owning a .io domain is taking part directly in the enslaving and poisoning of the island's native /s

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

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Post by CyanDeparture » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:23 PM UTC

I will never use this, but I'm delighted it exsits.

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

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Post by aequitas » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:24 PM UTC

Why even bother with registering emoji domains?

Just allow people to register bob.@mailoji.com.

TikTok users probably wouldn't care where the emoji was in the email address. Most non technical people don't even understand email addresses (you work here too? is the most common question I get when I tell people my email is @mydomain.com). Only internet nerds really care that the emoji is in the domain name.