Yes, you read that right, I now own π©βπ»π¨βπ».to.
Now for a split second you may have thought I meant dev.to - of course not, I don't want a 5(6) ch...
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Have I ever bought an emoji domain? Nope.
Can I think of a good use for my domain? π€ Maybe you can use it to host dev related stuff. Email would be fun.
Do I think emoji domains will ever catch on? Not really. At least until there is sufficient browser support and you can get a physical emoji keyboard. Typing emojis is hard and requires extra clicks, something that is especially hard on laptops. Actually on my iPad I had to manually type the link in because when copying and pasting I got this
SEO is also probably a problem.
I think you nailed this 100%!
And yeah I don't think I will use it for anything other than a bit of fun...I might put my DEV.to demos on the site just for fun...provided I can link to the domain from codepen / jsfiddle!
Another experiment I need to run!
Yup, this will be your average workstation of emoji domains catch on! ππ€£
Several weird things if you buy a Emoji Domain name and post it on dev.to
Being a unicorn
You own 2lkc
Well I am a unicorn, I poop rainbows and pixie dust. Why are you surprised by this ππ€£
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I saw it though, yes those As 1s and Ys π
And don't think that's true. Forgive me
All is forgiven π
I personally think QR Codes are the domains of the future. Once we get a QR HTML Element and users can copy it and you can click or scan it there is no better way to navigate the web, no fights more over names every app/webApp gets an QR Code wich means the browser search bar needs some upgrades, you still need to be able to search the web like you search an app store, ahh and by the way I would love to see a merge of Browsers and App Stores, (AppWeb)? I imagine this to be a mix of apps which open directly without installation and other apps like games which you can install, I personally see AppStores and installable apps as a step backward because I think the Web with instant apps and instant streaming and instant gaming like stadia is the future the future should not have an installation process at all we had this in the 80's and then came the web, so no idea how Apple did it but Respect for creating an hype around old tech like installable software. Now that the internet is becoming faster I think we should focus on getting rid of installations, every App Store can still have an review process even for web apps, and instead of having normal ssl certificates maybe we need for each AppWeb a separate review which I don't mind.
QR codes are useful for sharing bulk information in a machine readable format, but they lack one key feature thatβs kind of crucial for how most people currently use the internet: 99% of people canβt memorize them, and they cannot be communicated without some technology involved.
dev.tois trivial to memorize. I can share it with someone who has never heard of it in a regular conversation without anybody having to pull out their phone and be reasonably certain they will type it in correctly (or closely enough that a search engine will find it for them). The QR-code equivalent is a 21Γ21 image that has to have most of the pixels correct to work correctly, most people would be hard-pressed to memorize those 249 pixels (ignoring the alignment targets), and the only way to share it is an image.This doesnβt mean theyβre not good in some cases. If you pay attention to the actual URLs that are found in most QR codes that do in fact encode URLs (because they can encode other things), you will notice that many of them are long enough for typing them in by hand to be error-prone, hence why a QR code is being used to begin with.
Hey;) What I meant of course is that the apps still have names even the QR codes for them exist, so typing dev.to in search in my concept will list it in search results and you can open it same as you type YouTube in the AppStore and then click the logo to open it, names and logos still exist, the internet I describe is kind of futuristic and hard to explain but see it as a giant open app store.
I've bought quite a few a while a go, but they all expired now.
Like the premise, but back then it had so many downsides in people not being able to reach them π.
Or trying to explain your domain is [emoji-christmas-tree].ws
Yup, impractical and silly and only developers will really appreciate them...but I had to have some fun!
Enjoyed the Live Stream Sunday BTW Mr Anonymous!
Thanks! Haha
Yep def fun to own.
And they might become a proper use-case one day so hang on to them
The combined emoji thing is most likely just a font thing in your email client. Most likely different email clients will display it differently.
It is to do with the fact that you need a combiner unicode character that isn't supported in domain names.
I get the concept but don't know the right terms, but you combine two emojis with a special character [U+200D] to create the woman at computer or man at computer.
URLs don't support this invisible character (I think because of security) so as far as I am aware it is impossible to fix the issue on Outbound emails as technically my domain name is π©π»π¨π» and it is just how unicode characters are decoded that allow me to have π©βπ»π¨βπ» as the domain (as it decodes to the correct characters).
I have no idea if that is a good explanation but sadly I think it can't be fixed in any email client etc.
Ah I see. The first half makes sense, but the combining characters are themselves Unicode characters (
[...'π©βπ»'].length === 3), so it's not just something in how Unicode itself is decoded. It must be something in the punycode spec that states that invisible characters are simply ignored. I just checked and it seems this is the case:Pretty interesting!
Edit: Actually, it might just be Chromium's implementation, rather than the spec itself. In Firefox,
new URL('https://π©π»π¨π».to').hrefis xn--qq8hb0wb.to/, whereasnew URL('https://π©βπ»π¨βπ».to').hrefis xn--1uga01807aca52bc.to/ (a domain name that doesn't resolve). Sure enough, opening π©βπ»π¨βπ».to doesn't work in Firefox (but π©π»π¨π».to works fine).Yeah it is something I should actually learn properly as the amount of times I get confused between &X2394; and U+212C etc. as ways of encoding emojis is quite embarrassing (as was that sentence probably as like I said, I don't understand it all properly π€£)!
And punycode was the term I couldn't remember so thanks for that!
It will be converted to punycode, anyway.
Sigh. Yet another meme project on my todo list. I think I'm shooting for a Threejs emoji interactive thingie. πππ
I almost forgot about existence of emoji domains until your article popped up in my feed. Darn you!
Yup, DEV has a lot to answer for with introducing to or reminding me about pointless yet mildly amusing side projects I want to waste time and money on! π€£
Glad to be of service π and monkey loves banana is an awesome idea.
Let us know when the email thing works (or doesn't) π¬
It almost works - unfortunately it appears that combined emojis don't work!
But I can send an email to g@π©βπ»π¨βπ».to and it is received just fine π
Nice!
Whimsical and fun! I like it!
Yup, I would totally not advise this for anything that isn't silly, for the exact reasons you mentioned.
Plus other issues I have found are that a lot of sites don't think emojis are valid as part of URLs, so you can't set your own URL on profiles (although I did manage to work around that with a little help on Twitter...but with π¨π»π©π» as the result!)
Even buying the domains in the first place is difficult as most sites don't think they are valid as well!
Completely impractical...quite good fun though! π€£
Yes, it has been a long week in case you are wondering why I did this! π€£
And I don't know if it is just me, but buying an emoji domain just seems so very wrong...
I wasn't even aware that tongan unicode domains are a thing; might have to grab some myself ;)
The process is a bit messy, so I ended up using register.to as a lot of sites said domains were invalid!
If you find a better site to do it through then let me know! (p.s. one tip is mali domains ".ML" accept emojis and you can get them for free! But I obviously wanted a
.todomain to mess with DEV!)Ha ha! I love it!
There's emoji domains?? That's awesome. I had no idea you could do that
Yeah, a lot of the main ones like .com etc. won't let you (although a few people managed to grab some emoji domains before they stopped it so βΊοΈοΈ.com is valid), but the obscure ones like .to, .ws, etc. will let you do it.
Highly impractical but a bit of fun for a Friday!
I'm going to get one to!
π©βπ»π¨βπ».siddu.tech
That's the sensible way to do it (and not a waste of money either!).
Subdomains would have been a lot better for a stupid post...but I had to see how dfficult it was to buy an emoji domain (it isn't actually that easy as the domain sites keep breaking when you use emojis! π€£)
π that should have been trouble! Which provider did you get the domain from?
Eventually I bought it from register.to as everywhere else was saying the domain wasn't valid.
I used to own seΓ±oramontoro.com (for my wife's Spanish class), the Γ± was a pain in the neck and not worth it in the long run as students had trouble typing it.
Yeah I can imagine that would be a pain, and I imagine a lot of sites don't even accept Γ± as a character when setting up profiles etc.