5 ms·
Out of curiousity, could you register an emoji TLD? Like, andrew.💩 ?
by andrewstuart2 11y ago
Out of curiousity, could you register an emoji TLD?
Like, andrew.💩 ?
- edent 11y agoThere aren't any emoji TLDs - check https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt for the canonical list. There's nothing technically stopping an emoji TLD - after all, .香港 exists.
- jetpm 11y agoor 💩.com
- inieves 11y agothere was only one (maybe two) TLDs that would allow emoji domains names.. that was the famous .la TLD and so you saw http://💩.la http://💩.la that was my inspiration for http://shizz.it http://shizz.it shizz.it allows people to create http://👿.shizz.it http://👿.shizz.it or any other emoji character mix, as a subdomain, which is then redirected to any other URL. Thus link forwarding. By making use of emoji in subdomains, you can get around the restriction of no emoji in domains or TLDs. ;)
- icebraining 11y agoNope, the new gTLD program just allows letters a-z, nothing else. https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faqs/faqs-en https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/fa...
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoNot true, the new gTLD program allows Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs), e.g. the Japanese .みんな (minna, "everyone"). The ASCII label is not the same as the TLD itself.
- icebraining 11y agoI understand the TLD is not the label, but since punycode encoded TLDs use '-', aren't they excluded by the a-z rule?
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoI was thinking the same thing, and concluded that perhaps the label is not the actual ASCII domain name. So perhaps みんな's label is "minna".