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Discussion on: Emoji Encoding, Unicode, and Internationalization with Naomi Meyer

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ItsASine (Kayla) • Edited

What do you think of using emojis in URLs/domain names?
I used to have one that redirected to my site as a 2 "character" thing was worked anywhere and could express what I wanted real quick.

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Naomi Meyer

Oh cool, yeah those are cute 😊! How did you do it?

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ItsASine (Kayla)

It was a trend here on dev.to for a while. The gist was to get the Latin representation of the emoji and register that for the domain, and then link to it online with the emojis

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Oooh I also just found this Wikipedia article on it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain

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Naomi Meyer

Awesome - good to know 🥳