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		pards on April 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan an... I thought this was a cool idea so I tried to add a mailbox with an emoji username to my protonmail account - no bueno. Invalid username. Boo!

qingcharles on April 21, 2024 [–]

So there's two parts to having an emoji email address. You can do just the domain (supported some places) or go full emoji and have an emoji username too.

You should never go full emoji. It is supported in far less places than the domain alone is.

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