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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 tiborsaas »

rhythmofrest wrote: post #318
simias wrote: post #289

I'm genuinely impressed by the author's willingness to come up with such a silly idea, go through with it, implement a completely barebones website that won't even let you send emails from the addresses and starts selling subscriptions for $10/year. I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely impressed. If it were me I'd spend 2 years mulling about it and never actually do it because I'd be worried about not managing to make…

I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

A common wallet with a SO freaks me out :)

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

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Post by nashashmi »

rwmj wrote: post #139
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 don't know if it's related to this, but gmail deduplicates emails based on the Message-Id. This is entirely broken behaviour and causes trouble for us with mailing lists (eg. a mail is sent to the inbox and a mailing list, or sent to two mailing lists). Another in the list of reasons not to use gmail.

But if you send yourself an email, you will get it? How does deduplication work for that?

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

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Post by tinco »

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".

And so it should be. The Brexit should be as painful as possible for the UK. The more the UK is reminded of what they gave up, and what they will be missing, the better, as it positions them better for reentry.

Who cares about domain registration revenue? The only reason it isn't free is because of the administrative hassle of distributing frivolous domain registrations.

If EU citizens are confused about UK companies disappearing, maybe they'll search and be exposed to EU competitors, how could that be a bad thing?

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

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Post by SavantIdiot »

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(…

Uh oh. How do I find rules for other domains? I went a little batty with the .de domain years ago and have quite a few. But, I'm not in Germany. While there is a mild ethical cringe at doing this, am I running afoul of some rules that might actually bite me later?

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

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Post by SavantIdiot »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

All 4-letter .com's were taken as of 2013.

https://whoapi.com/blog/we-are-out-of-4-letter-com-domains/

I wonder how long until all 5- and 6- letter are gone.

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

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Post by SavantIdiot »

bsenftner wrote: post #66
qwerty456127 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are Buddhists and Hinduists allowed to use Swastika in Germany?

The German swastika is a mirror reflection of the religious icon, btw.

Btw, there are dozens of other occurances, not just one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

"In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean the swastika is also a homonym of the number 10,000,..."

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

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Post by atleta »

rhythmofrest wrote: post #318
simias wrote: post #289

I'm genuinely impressed by the author's willingness to come up with such a silly idea, go through with it, implement a completely barebones website that won't even let you send emails from the addresses and starts selling subscriptions for $10/year. I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely impressed. If it were me I'd spend 2 years mulling about it and never actually do it because I'd be worried about not managing to make…

I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"

But why would you do that? I mean if that's you money, why would you ask your partner? I'm pretty frugal, don't spend on stupid things easily (well, things that I find stupid, at least), but if I had a business idea or even a fun project I don't think I'd need permission from my partner to spend my own money on it. Discussing it is a different story, of course.

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

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Post by chias »

tener wrote: post #368

Huh. Neat idea, but why does emoji needs to be a part of the domain? @emojimail.com would work just fine? Plus, you can have mail aliases that way and combine multiple emoji too. @emojimail.com could be equivalent to rocket.moon@emojimail.com for compatibility purposes.

IIRC the email spec requires all characters to be ASCII.

Technically your email address isn't bob@[mailbox].kz, it's bob@xn--h78h.kz which your browser and possibly some mail clients will render as bob@[mailbox].kz. But xn--h78h@emojimail.com will always just display as xn--h78h@emojimail.com.

For the domain part, browsers and email providers have collectively agreed to render domains of the form xn-[stuff]-[stuff].[tld] according to the Punycode specification, but no such rendering exists for the username.

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

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Post by scrozier »

danaliv wrote: post #322
dmingod666 wrote: post #313

Earlier 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.

Oh, that cuts to the quick.
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