Emoji Domains

[nebulon]

Hi all, just found out about Emoji domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain

Is anyone here using one of them on Cloudron?

[jimcavoli]

Genuinely did not know this was a thing. Definitely don't have one, but now I kind of want to come up with an excuse to buy one. No idea which registrars even support them though

[nebulon]

@jimcavoli exactly my thoughts

[marcusquinn]

.com

[mehdi]

I think you could try it with an emoji-subdomain, without buying anything

[marcusquinn]

@mehdi .god.com

[scooke]

Seems like it uses Punycode to register, which porkbun and dynadot can do. I have domains using Chinese and RtL characters, which are punycode, so this should be just as doable. You just have to snag the punycode that is most widely accepted for a emoji, which probably an HTML character list can tell you, like https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_emoji.asp. Better get on it!!

[luckow]

• entering an emoji into a subdomain on cloudron results in "Bad location: Hostname is not a valid domain name"
• entering into my dns provider results in xn--s38h
• entering xn--s38h into a sudomain on cloudron result is: installing
• https://.nebelcloud.de/

check.

[girish]

@luckow I still see xn--s38h in the url bar. Is that because firefox on android does not support emoji in the location bar?

[imc67]

@girish said in Emoji Domains:

@luckow I still see xn--s38h in the url bar. Is that because firefox on android does not support emoji in the location bar?

Safari on iPad does show it, how funny.

[A Former User]

@girish I dont see it on Brave browser (basically chrome) on macOS.

[girish]

Behind every cool feature there is some security issue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Client-side_mitigation . Pretty much confirms that only safari went to some length to show the emoji because it is not part of attack vector.

[humptydumpty]

What blasphemy is this and why haven't I heard of it till now?

[robi]

Yeah, slightly old news for me, but I found very few useful cases for it other than a gimmick.

Customers won't like typing punycode either, they'd do a shortURL way before that followed by a barcode/qr code.

[rmdes]

The Indieweb people use one for their Indiewebring
my short link profile :
https://.ws/7️⃣️/

the ring itself : https://.ws/

[Shaun]

Did not know this was existing till now... thanks man