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

Post by EGreg » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 4:39 AM UTC

dc396 wrote: post #26

duskwuff wrote: post #22

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> can't someone start a CCTLD (it's only $250K) No, they can't. ccTLDs are associated with countries. There's no process for creating one that doesn't involve having IANA recognize you as a country. You're probably thinking of the new gTLD process, which has only been open for applications once, for a brief period in 2012. It's not open to new applications, and the process for applicants was much more involved than a…

ICANN says the next round will happen in 2026.

Post by newaccount74 » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 5:58 AM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #29

dkarras wrote: post #24

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because like most things blockchains (cl)aim to solve (primarily money and its transfer, but in this case ownership of domain names), those things do not really really have a centralization problem. 99.999% of the people do not, and do not need to worry about getting their domain name seized. cryptobros like to pose centralization as a huge problem where it really isn't so that they can peddle you scamcoins to pump a…

See, this is just dogma that gets repeated on HN. It's obvious to any person who honestly thinks about it, that having a third party in control of your DNS (i.e. what IP addresses it resolves to) means that your entire site can be rugpulled from under you. If it becomes big enough. For example: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/is-njalla-still-legit.1521... Now, you can say, "most people don't care, they just have a…

Post by vasco » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 6:19 AM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #31

dc396 wrote: post #26

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ICANN says the next round will happen in 2026.

Do you have more information on this? If you can link to it, that would be great. How much would it cost this time around?

Post by berkes » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 7:17 AM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #29

dkarras wrote: post #24

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because like most things blockchains (cl)aim to solve (primarily money and its transfer, but in this case ownership of domain names), those things do not really really have a centralization problem. 99.999% of the people do not, and do not need to worry about getting their domain name seized. cryptobros like to pose centralization as a huge problem where it really isn't so that they can peddle you scamcoins to pump a…

See, this is just dogma that gets repeated on HN. It's obvious to any person who honestly thinks about it, that having a third party in control of your DNS (i.e. what IP addresses it resolves to) means that your entire site can be rugpulled from under you. If it becomes big enough. For example: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/is-njalla-still-legit.1521... Now, you can say, "most people don't care, they just have a…

Post by AndyMcConachie » Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 7:48 AM UTC

eskibars wrote: post #27

I bought xn--mn8h9e.ws a couple years ago just for fun. I think it's fun to own an emoji domain, but what I can say definitely say is that it's still a bad idea to own one if you want to get emails to it. Popular thick email clients still struggle with utf8 domains and I've fiddled around with several email providers that just have complete failures trying to send as well. I tried pasting the email address in a bunch…