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

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Post by hattmall »

bmsleight_ wrote: post #500
coolspot wrote: post #454

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Maybe in a “partnership” you don’t need to ask a “partner”. But in marriage you don’t have “your money” - you are both on the same team, so all money are shared. If you spend $1000 on something random, that sets your team, your family, back of its common goals - house down payment, vacation, etc.

I am in a long marriage,we each have our own money and joint account money. We are both in the same team and can spend our own money. Each person has the same percentage of take-home to spend as an individual. Work for us, may not work for others.

This is just you having "extra" money. I guess it's a demographic thing but do you (and everyone else) not understand that over 50% of people (in the US at least) don't have "extra" money. The money they make is already allocated before it's made, any sort of "extra" spending goes on a credit card or forces some other payment to be not made on time, often incurring fees. In some cases that money would deplete a small savings balance.

This is pre-covid numbers but 69% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings. 45% have no savings, and roughly 30% spend more than they make each month, accumulating and juggling credit card balances / short term loans.

I'm from a poor area in the US and most people have $0 "extra" money. As an example my high school 10 year reunion was a few years ago and the target goal was $20. Even with a year's notice most people said that would be too expensive and they wouldn't have it. ($40 per couple).

We had multiple fundraisers to try and get everyone to participate. The fundraisers were everyone buying extra chicken wings with their food stamp cards and giving it to a local restaurant that cooks them and sells fundraiser plates and a car wash sponsored by the bowling alley that gives a free game to anyone who gets a $5 car wash.

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

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Post by ziml77 »

mikey_p wrote: post #359
duiker101 wrote: post #140

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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

I have 2 email addresses because of that. I thought it would be good to have my and address at my own domain but if I could go back in time I would tell myself to just stick with the gmail address. For anything where I can type in my email address, it's fine. But if someone asks for it verbally, I just give them the gmail address because firstnamelastname@gmail.com requires no extra clarification.

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

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Post by satellite2 »

konschubert wrote: post #468
satellite2 wrote: post #465

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Freedom 10EUR

GP mentioned a situation where money is tight. I’m glad you’ve never been in a place where 10 Euro fun money felt like a bit of a luxury.

I don't know where you lived but I've been there and 10EUR doesn't make you feel free.

It's an amount lower than the volatility of basic life (running out of toilet paper...). You would have to save five months to buy a jeans.

10EUR remaining on your bank account is precisely the amount that makes you feel insecure and poor.

Either you live in a very poor country, either you have no idea what you're talking about and are just condescending.

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

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Post by kureikain »

I like this idea so much. I woke up this morning and think how can I get an emoji email. I don't want to buy country level tld and ICANN ban emoji domain.

Then I realize I can have emoji in email itself. So I quickly add emoji support to my email forwarding service: https://hanami.run

So now anyone can email me at @hanami.run . Note that many mail client may say email is invalid but please send anyway. My mail server supports emoji.

So anyone own an domain here, if you like Emoji email, signed up for https://hanami.com and add your domain in there and configure alias.

Try email me at `flower-emoji-hacker-doesn't-support-emoji@hanami.run`

Check our docs https://hanami.run/docs/emoji_email

Long live emoji.

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

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Post by ziml77 »

sshagent wrote: post #5

I think i might have realised I've become old, when the very idea of an emoji domain causes me anger. sigh

But it's reasonable. Domains are already surprisingly confusing to people. Emoji in a domain piles on top of that when people have no clue that's possible. Plus it makes it more difficult to communicate the address verbally and it can be hard or even impossible to enter the address in some systems.

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

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Post by fwip »

magneticnorth wrote: post #529
asciimov wrote: post #490

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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…

Our solution was to sit down and decide what amount and cadence of "fun money" we can safely allocate to ourselves, and we can save or spend that individually. In our case we have very different spending habits - I love to get a fairly regular coffee-shop latte & croissant, or fancy restaurant meals with friends, and similar things that savings gurus tell you will prevent you from ever retiring (my spouse's point of…

Yep, my wife and I each have separate checking accounts that are basically our own allowances, set up with an automatic recurring transfer every month. We're fortunate enough to have enough financial security to do this.

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

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Post by fwip »

satellite2 wrote: post #553
konschubert wrote: post #468

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GP mentioned a situation where money is tight. I’m glad you’ve never been in a place where 10 Euro fun money felt like a bit of a luxury.

I don't know where you lived but I've been there and 10EUR doesn't make you feel free. It's an amount lower than the volatility of basic life (running out of toilet paper...). You would have to save five months to buy a jeans. 10EUR remaining on your bank account is precisely the amount that makes you feel insecure and poor. Either you live in a very poor country, either you have no idea what you're talking about and…

"a bit of freedom" is the quote that you're arguing about.

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

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Post by tambeb »

DavidAdams wrote: post #449
Theory5 wrote: post #190

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As a security person its hard as heck training (some of) our users to understand how basic domain formats work. We use a phishing simulation service, and outside of certain content,putting part or all of our company name in the domain but adding other words/underscores/etc is what tricks a lot of people. I tend to explain how it works in a basic format, and often you can see the light bulb go off when I point out how…

I registered .com domains with my kids' names when they were born, and when one of them discovered that they could get the email address gmail@hisname.com he was stoked. His friends don't understand how it's possible for that email address to work. As a practical joke, he always says "what do you mean? Doesn't gmail@yourname.com not work too?"

Somewhat similar to this... My full name is Tambe Barsbay, so I bought the domain mbebarsbay.com and have t@mbebarsbay.com as my email.

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

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Post by schoen »

tshaddox wrote: post #458
tialaramex wrote: post #161

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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…

It might make sense for certain Internet resources to be made available only to citizens of some political region. It might make sense to revoke access to such resources if an individual renounced their citizenship or loses it due to their own actions (like, say, treason). But it really doesn’t make much sense that I could lose access to an arbitrary Internet resource I legitimately possessed because of large-scale p…

Both forms of Internet naming semantics make sense to me. Unfortunately, we've never reached any consensus or understanding at all about which apply where, or how to tell. That leaves us in this kind of crummy middle ground where different TLDs do or don't assert things about their registrants, to a degree that can change over time, and there's not an easy way to check. (You could read the NIC web site, if it's up-to-date, if it's in a language you speak, and if its stated policies actually correspond to its practices...)

It's not surprising at all that people's intuitions about a particular TLD would diverge. But it's sad, because it means the Internet naming system isn't working well in terms of the function of letting users know what particular names mean.

It's not crazy to imagine either a TLD that says "despite any possible appearances to the contrary, this is a first-come-first-served namespace in which names have no extrinsic meaning at all" or a TLD that says "this TLD is owned by entity X, and subdomains, like subdomains of a corporate or governmental network, are only given to persons with an appropriate relationship with entity X, and only during the term of that relationship". (Maybe even a TLD that says "notionally this TLD is about topic or group Y, but our rules about what that means are kind of idiosyncratic".) (But if there are TLDs in all these categories in the same DNS, both registrants and Internet users are probably going to be unsure which is which, as well as exactly what the TLDs in the third group "really" mean.)

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