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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by belval on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:27AM (#26424998)
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.

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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by SavantIdiot on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:32PM (#26427305)
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.

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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by davchana on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:26PM (#26426572)
Exactly, I too had to use .net & .us, because.com was registered in 1995.
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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by vxNsr on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:58PM (#26430094)
My last name ends in al but the domain is taken. The .com one is taken by a guy who’s using it to showcase his Holocaust family tree (oddly enough his son had a run in with my sis a while back). I tried reaching out to him to see if he was interested in taking like .org but he’s not :( so I got .me
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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by belval on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:03PM (#26431091)
I offered $1k (there's nothing on belval.com) and belval.org to the owner of belval.com, he just replied to say "never contact me again" as if I was with the mob or something. It was a weird experience.
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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by vxNsr on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:14PM (#26472538)
So weird. Why would you hold something without any plan to sell it, nor a thought towards using it?
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