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minus-squareNighed@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-29 hours ago15 Going to have to try some of those… Can you actually register emojis as a domain, or is that just the email validation that allows them? Edit: most TLDs don’t. Smaller ones do sometimes.
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 hours agoEmoji domains can be registered using punycode, and you’re right that it’s up to the TLD whether they’re allowed or not. For example: http://📙.la/🐶 📙.la is encoded using punycode to http://📙.la/ 🐶 is URL-encoded to %F0%9F%90%B6 Giving the ‘true’ URL http://📙.la/🐶 which then redirects to https://emojipedia.org/dog-face Emails should generally use @xn--yt8h.la instead of @📙.la for maximum compatibility. I’m not sure if the email spec allows punycode.
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Going to have to try some of those… Can you actually register emojis as a domain, or is that just the email validation that allows them?
Edit: most TLDs don’t. Smaller ones do sometimes.
Emoji domains can be registered using punycode, and you’re right that it’s up to the TLD whether they’re allowed or not.
For example: http://📙.la/🐶
📙.la is encoded using punycode to http://📙.la/
🐶 is URL-encoded to %F0%9F%90%B6
Giving the ‘true’ URL http://📙.la/🐶 which then redirects to https://emojipedia.org/dog-face
Emails should generally use
@xn--yt8h.lainstead of@📙.lafor maximum compatibility. I’m not sure if the email spec allows punycode.