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Comment by sixhobbits | Hacker News Reader

I'm confused by the post about if I can buy g@ or only g@.kz - the post seems to suggest the former but I don't understand how that would work

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oh HN doesn't support emojis - that is

    g@<unicorn-emoji>.kz

    g@<unicorn-emoji>

I think you need the .kz, if you don't, I can officially say that I am out of the tech game and need to go grow potatoes.

You need a TLD but IIRC, the second level is not required. So you could have something like `http://google`, which I think, Google actually had at some point in the past. Cannot however find anything related to this anymore.

The .ai TLD has an A record, so http://ai/ works.

Yes, this I understand. But not the other way around.

I wrote a post about that: https://www.simonjunod.ch/projets/webtld/

It's in French, but it's easy to understand the gist of it

I am also confused. I assume the email address would always be postfixed with .kz or the email would not arrive.

Yeah, the YouTube ad shows this (there's a quick screenshot of an email address with .kz after the emoji). But the ad also does the trick of eliminating the ccTLD after gmail and yahoo, it asks you "Still using an @gmail address?" ... well I use an @gmail.com address, but I see what you did there, you eliminated the .com so you could also hide the fact that your emoji address actually needs a .kz at the end.

g@<emoji>.kz

You need the TLD. He was just saying that he was looking for TLDs where it was currently possible to register a single emoji as the second-level domain. He found .kz and is now selling <whatever>@<emoji>.kz

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