I love how it says everywhere to "buy" a TLD when it's really renting or leasing. It's not like it's a one time payment and then you own it.
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
#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, I'm not implying it's bad, just that they used to do that and they still do that to this day. I have nothing against storing data in files. In fact, I do that all the time myself too.
Don't databases also store data in files or am I missing the point?
Yes, ultimately they do (usually) and yes, you are missing the point.
"filesystem as a database" is not referring to database software that stores the data on disk but rather that the application is directly interacting with the filesystem. Imagine dumping a JSON document to disk, then reading it from disk, compared to storing a JSON string in a DB. Sure, they are both backed by the disk, but one is not "filesystem as a DB".
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very well written. Bill burr on his podcast was talking about, when he first discovered reddit. He couldn't understand what it was... He then realized later.. "it's a site for people that really like to type.. that's what it is.."
I like to think of Wikipedia as a site for people who like to correct other people.
"Well actually..." given form.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#354Maybe the whole covid thing lowered my happiness-level standards, but I find this charming. Also I would be scared to receive actual money from people for something as out of my control as email. I hope the author doesn't get hit by a wave of "my emoji emails are not being delivered to @commercial-behemoth or @government-branch and I've made my emoji adress my main one and it's all your fault" a few months down the l…
The clever part about this is they don't deal with deliverability at all. This is only for incoming email.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#355Earlier 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.
I've become a big fan of structuring onboarding in a way that makes problem customers never complete. Maybe the OP should think about how to do that here
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#356The 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.
There is an actual emoji button on new dell keyboards as well as a lock button. Not just a repurposed FN key but really a separate key with a smiley on it and one with a lock next to it. Both work without extra drivers in Windows 10.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#357ICANN SSAC Advisory on the Use of Emoji in Domain Names
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-095-en.pdf
A good document outlining many of the issues with using Emoji in domain names.
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#358TLD .cf supports emoji and can be bought for free (up to 12 months).
Now good luck finding a reseller that processes the purchase of an emoji domain name.....
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#359The 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.
I have a simple email address:
firstname @ (nickname for firstname) + (last initial) .net
And it's amazing how hard it is to explain this to people over the phone or in store for email receipts, etc.
I'm shocked how few folks seems to be vaguely aware that .net as TLD exists even though it's one of the original TLDs from when they were first created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net
Re: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
#360the author may like to know Cyrillic doesn't automatically mean Russian
The website is in Russian though. The author probably knew that because he had to use some online translation tool to go through the purchase process. Fun fact: the Kazakh government decided to replace Cyrillic with Latin for the Kazakh language. Apparently the process is supposed to end in 2025, but I have no idea how widely adopted the new alphabet is at the moment.
>I have no idea how widely adopted the new alphabet is at the moment
Not much. Most publications and websites are still using the old alphabet, including the most important government portal which is used by pretty much everybody: https://egov.kz/cms/kk
I rarely see it on anything more substantial than ad banners and propaganda posters (like "don't litter" and "vote for our beloved leader").