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Everyone knows what an email address is, right? (Quiz) (e-mail.wtf)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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://xn--yt8h.la/%F0%9F%90%B6

    📙.la is encoded using punycode to http://xn--yt8h.la/

    🐶 is URL-encoded to %F0%9F%90%B6

    Giving the 'true' URL http://xn--yt8h.la/%F0%9F%90%B6 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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