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

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Post by prionassembly »

jhardy54 wrote: post #539
asciimov wrote: post #490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's for family budgeting and trust. We generally ask/inform if we are going to spend more than $100 on any given project/item. This helps both of us realize if it's a need or want. That way if I mention I'm going to get a new video game, I'll be stopped if its the third one in a month. Or if she wants new luggage, is it because it is needed or is it desired because it's a new color that is available. You might make…

Not being snarky: What's the alternative? Like, what would happen if you didn't do that? I ask because my wife and I spend money however we like, and I think it'd be quite strange if she checked in with me before spending $150. Is there some useful context or previous over-spending that you're solving, or is it something you'd recommend for everyone?

Maybe 100 bucks mean to him far more than 150 bucks mean to you, or 15k to Elon Musk, or 15 to someone struggling to escape homelessness.

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

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Post by shard972 »

krick wrote: post #516
londons_explore wrote: post #179

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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".

I was unaware that such thing happened, and I'm kind of surprised as it sounds like somewhat un-EU-ish to me, but I obviously had the wrong sense of what is EU-ish. And I wholeheartedly support that. I mean, it makes sense. If the domain policy of *.eu says that it is for *.eu-based people and organizations, and you leave the EU, why the fuck should you keep it? If EU wanted to make more money on it, it would have ma…

@dang flamewar alert!

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

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Post by tialaramex »

kubanczyk wrote: post #520
tinco wrote: post #442

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The British?

Oh are you from .io originally? (TLD of British Indian Ocean Territory)

I mean, almost the whole point of the British is that they fucked over everybody. Americans, Chinese, Russians, Australians, Canadians, Indians, all have plenty to blame the British for.

Even a bunch of people who by rational assessment would count as British can reasonably say the British fucked them over because of a series of Tory policies, first destroying the paperwork which proves they came here by invitation (on the Empire Windrush and other ships), and then insisting that since they don't have that paperwork if they haven't already secured citizenship papers they were never authorised to be here and must be sent "home" - in some cases forcibly deported to countries they hadn't been to in more than half a century. See "Windrush scandal".

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

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Post by sturmeh »

This is awesome, but I can't imagine how much trouble you'd run into with emoji's being different on different devices, plenty of input methods / printers without support let alone writing your email down on a printed form. (Technically you can write the full encoded form and that will work but you'll have to memorise it.)

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

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Post by reaperducer »

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?"

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?"

There's a PSA running on Australian radio these days that says if your spouse doesn't let you control your own money, that's a form of abuse. There's even a hotline to report that you're being abused.

(Heard it on 2GB/Sydney last week.)

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

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Post by GSimon »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #481
imwillofficial wrote: post #414

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Yeah, .io represents “Input/Output” as much as .net represents “Network” Domains often have little connection to their intended meaning.

Let's say you're running a startup and decided to be hip and get an io domain. You reach out to a potential major client who happens to be of Chagossian descent. They probably wouldn't care for your interpretation of the domain, they just see you supporting the people who relocated their entire group of people from their native homeland. So, yes, you should be well aware of what the io domain represents and who you'r…

> they just see you supporting the people who relocated their entire group of people from their native homeland.

I'll take "Things that you'll never have to worry about IRL for 1000$ Alex" This reads like satire. What cross-circles of people who happen to recognize the .io and know its associated with a TLD for a country or nation and also happen to not know it's other innate purpose of representing input/output? This is as ridiculous as worrying about having a brand with a .tv domain and a negative perception of those from the Tuvalu island.

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

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Post by Thorrez »

swilliamsio wrote: post #254
MrsPeaches wrote: post #234

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Just FYI, .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory, which has a less than savoury history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory

Please don't tell me there exists genuine attempts to "cancel" the .io domain.

Since at least 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8587379

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

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Post by klingon78 »

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 took a poll with a kid who said they thought an emoji email domain wasn’t smart. Up until that point, I’d been sold on it also.

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

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Post by nerdb4itwascool »

diamond_hands wrote: post #506
simias wrote: post #439

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I was actually just thinking that he should probably register the [diamond][hands].kk domain, there's got to be some demand for it given how much it gets spammed over there.

https://xn--tr8hi8e.kz/

OP sort of deserves this. His little commercial there shows the diamond hands emoji but he never registered it
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