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I recently discovered .to domains allow for emoji like .ws and a few other ccTLDs. While they have some (technical) downsides I figured they'd be interesting t
by keesj 9y ago
I recently discovered .to domains allow for emoji like .ws and a few other ccTLDs.
While they have some (technical) downsides I figured they'd be interesting to experiment with so I was curious if any good ones were still available. Manually checking them one-by-one was kinda cumbersome, so I wrote a simple script to check availability for each possible single-emoji .to domain.
Turns out many were still available (about 70% at the time). I registered a few and decided to publicise the list. That was my weekend project ~2 weeks ago. Today I finally launched it.
I wrote more about the timeline and how I built it here: https://medium.com/@marckohlbrugge/get-your-own-emoji-domain-with-to-d2b0c79d3618 https://medium.com/@marckohlbrugge/get-your-own-emoji-domain...
Disclosure: I worked out an affiliate deal with my registrar so I get a 10% commission for each registration. Of course you're free to use your own registrar of choice.
- gregorymichael 9y agoLove it. Thanks for writing up your story.
- keesj 9y agoYou're welcome :)
- Rodd45 9y agoTotally cool man, nice!
- keesj 9y agoThanks
- bryanrasmussen 9y agomaybe a tooltip to tell you what the name of the unicode codepoint is when mousing over the emoji?
- keesj 9y agoAh yes, some more information on each emoji might have been useful. If I choose to continue development on the site I'll consider that.