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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 joshstrange »

thesuitonym wrote: post #198
duiker101 wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use hello@firstmiddlelast.com I also have firstmiddlelast@gmail.com, and about half the time I tell someone my email address, the send it to the gmail one.

I use first@firstlast.com and wasn't able to get the firstlast@gmail.com so I guess I'm just hoping I'm getting all my email. I will say that having my name be my email makes life /so much/ easier. Especially over the phone, "Yes, my email is first@firstlast.com, just like the name I just told you and/or is already on your screen when you pulled up my account".

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

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Post by thatguy0900 »

swiley wrote: post #113
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…

I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't expect something like this to work reliably.

He advertised it to a general audience on tic tok,and it is a service people pay for. Why would they not expect it to work? That makes no sense to me. It seems that way because you understand how dysfunctional email is. I would be upset if I bought a service for something I don't understand that is normally completely functional and free and when I relied on it it broke only for people who understand it to laugh at me because I should have just known that vendor was unreliable.

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

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Post by path411 »

dmingod666 wrote: post #323
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…

'Serious', 'enterprise'.. and email addresses ending in star emoji, eggplant emoji.. wonder how that venn diagram would look like..

Yes but yourname@[computer] is quite appealing for a dev. I already bought it from OP

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

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Post by scubbo »

ableal wrote: post #325
cmehdy wrote: post #261

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This stuff is not really well made for normal people, to be honest. Just look at all the discussions and troubles (tickets, misunderstandings, security risks) related to email and hyperlink parsers.. It took me a while to know that FQDNs can (and sometimest must?) start at root with a period, meaning every address you've ever typed could have finished with a period (news.ycombinator.com.) and I recall some newspaper…

Please stop downvoting this. If not an unpleasant truth, it's at least a widely held perception, which must have a reason. (And I suspect that reason is because it's true ...) > this is a valid email address apparently: #!$%&’*+-/=?^_`{}|~@example.com If so, that's actually the same as #!$%&’*@example.com (mail user 'foo+bar' is the same as 'foo'). Many webforms/DBs don't know that.

> If so, that's actually the same as #!$%&’*@example.com (mail user 'foo+bar' is the same as 'foo'). Many webforms/DBs don't know that.

Actually, no. To the best of my knowledge (and I'd be delighted to be corrected!), that's merely a convention that lots of providers (including GMail) conform to, but it's not part of the RFC or standards.

Don't get me wrong - it irritates me when that very-common behaviour isn't supported (and, at the very least, `+` shouldn't be considered an illegal character). But it's also technically-not-wrong to consider `a+1@test.com` as different from `a@test.com`.

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

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Post by davchana »

belval wrote: post #264
worldofmatthew wrote: post #109

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Aka why I mainly stick with .com

The issue it that a lot of .com are taken so for the sake of a personal email address it is not ideal. The person that owns "belval.com" literally registered it before I was born so I settled for "belval.org", "belval.me", "belv.al" but only the first one is accepted by most company.

Exactly, I too had to use .net & .us, because.com was registered in 1995.

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

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Post by vmception »

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.

Its 2021 and I am just finding people that treat .co emails as normal and don't mentally overwrite that as .com and create a typo

For services that actually require correspondence, I register the cool fun tld and a seperate .com for email

This also lets mailing lists het marked as spam without harming the deliverability of the other

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

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Post by sigio »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #106
pull_my_finger wrote: post #82

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This is something to keep in mind with all TLDs really. They're not all created equal and can be subject to rules specific to their operators. Have to do your homework before you buy that cute domain.

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

Just a matter of getting a TTP / Intermediary to hold the domain for you in the EU, same as for the local presence requirements in for example .no(rway) and many other TLD's.

It's just another $10-20/year and fixes your 'problem'

Many domain registrars will offer this service, as 90+% of their clients will need it for these ccTLD's.

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

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Post by davchana »

tyingq wrote: post #131
prepend wrote: post #6

> I setup an email forwarder to route all email sent to .ws to my regular email address. >Eagerly I typed ben@.ws into the "to" field of gmail and hit send. > The email never hit my inbox. It was lost forever in cyberspace. I think this was just caused by Gmail now working when a message is sent and received at the same account. It just disappears. [0] It’s really annoying, it’s not part of a spec, it’s just gmail. I…

I'm confused, as I'm able to send and also forward messages from myself to myself just fine in gmail. How would I recreate this? Does it only come up for emails coming from outside of gmail?

set up an account two@any.com.

Two@any.com forwards every incoming email to one@gmail.com

Send an email from one@gmail.com to two@any.com (which will automatically get forwarded back to one@gmail.com).

There will be no incoming email back in one@gmail.com. it will disappear at two@any.com

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

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Post by vmception »

Biganon wrote: post #214
enriquto wrote: post #42

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Notice that HN already does support unicode: α β γ é ö 本 It actively filters out a small part of it, mostly emojis (which I think that it is a good thing to do).

I find this trend of despising emojis quite pretentious and annoying. They are very useful in some circumstances. Acting like anyone using them is a dumb teenager, or they will automatically ruin a community, is completely absurd.

Its Gen X and you know it

They don’t know it, but the rest of us do

Its not a trend its out of touch old people that dont know they’re out of touch old people yet

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