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Relevant talk from FOSDEM 2018 (warning: poor audio quality): https://youtu.be/xxX81WmXjPg
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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://xn--yt8h.la/%F0%9F%90%B6
๐.la is encoded using punycode to http://xn--yt8h.la/
๐ถ 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 @๐.la for maximum compatibility. I'm not sure if the email spec allows punycode.
Jesus effin Christ! I had no idea! This is madness! This is ... Omfg I just can't
Try explaining that last one to someone over the phone
I can't even view it...I get a TLS error
I get "not found". You got farther than me.
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I did not like this and quit after ten questions ๐
But I respect that it exists.
Hey dont share my email out ๐ก
same
should have just randomly clicked lol
#18 seems really bad, like no-one-has-ever-sanity-checked-this bad.
Im still trying to figure out what that means. How does @ resolve to an IP address?
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