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

Post by alexchamberlain » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 9:20 PM UTC

atleta wrote: post #388

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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.

Post by alwayseasy » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 9:28 PM UTC

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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 lose domain registration revenue. But in the other scenario, they now have to deal with support queries ("why can they have a .eu when I can't?"), possibly legal action ("why can they have a .eu when I can't?"), etc.

Post by satellite2 » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

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When your family has limited resources and needs to prioritise it's frustrating when somebody chooses to use those resources on frivolity.

You can still have personal budgets, even if they are very small. Heck, when things are tight, even having 10 Euro personal "fun money" a month for each partner can give a bit of freedom.

Post by a1369209993 » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 9:37 PM UTC

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You know what breaks, in human beings' experiences? Everything. All the time. So the holier-than-thou, thou-shall-not-deploy-less-than-perfect perspective is pretty irrelevant. This is a side project. That did something neat. The author should be commended, not lambasted for not rebuilding Gmail on their own. And God knows the Internet would be a better place with a little more weirdness again.

I dont think they are being lambasted, they should just put a warning on their site. Email is a very messed up ecosystem, and people who use email don't understand that. This is very cool, there should just be a disclaimer that this is a side project and will break often. Email is notoriously a pain in the ass if it's a full time job, much less a side project that's losing money. He's not selling this to quirky techi…

Post by satellite2 » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 9:38 PM UTC

tenacious_tuna wrote: post #378

rhythmofrest wrote: post #318

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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?"

I've come to believe that there's a certain amount of insanity required to be a great entrepreneur. Like Jobs or Musk--their personal qualities aside, they both had arguably legitimately insane visions that they refused to let people talk them out of. The side effect is they're also crazy in other ways (Musk-time and the billionaire-playboy-cyrptocoin-gambler being easy examples), but I think it really does take some…