[At-Large] Opera now lets you ditch boring web links and use emojis instead

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Thanks for the testing of IDN and the testing of how using IDNs with email
works in 2022.

I think what Opera does (I don't use Opera) is if emoji is entered in the
address bar, it redirects to y.at/<whatever emoji was typed>
So one has to register the emoji "domain" with y.at and than you could
access it from any browser using y.at/<emoji string>
(although I don't think Firefox allows emoji in its address bar)

Playing with https://y.at/create , it appears that you can register up to 5
emoji icons for your name.
The pricing varies with the length of the emoji string and the particular
emoji used.
Even swapping the emoji around changes the pricing.

So perhaps there's no way this is meant to be used for email addresses.

Dev Anand



On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 10:09 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <
michele at blacknight.com> wrote:

> I’ve been **trying** to use a domain name with a fada (accent) in it both
> to send a receive email.
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> It has NOT been going well:
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> https://michele.blog/trying-domains-with-accents-again-idn-domains/
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> So the likelihood of this emoji thing working with email is about slim to
> none
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> *Subject: *[At-Large] Opera now lets you ditch boring web links and use
> emojis instead
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> Hyperbole aside, wonder how (or if) emails could work - Dev Anand
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> https://blogs.opera.com/news/2022/02/opera-emoji-links-yat/
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> "Are you ready to take emojis to the next level? How about using emojis
> for a website address? Our new partnership with Yat is helping make this
> dream come true, by integrating their emoji system into our browsers on
> Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, as well as in the Opera Crypto Browser
> Project
> <https://blogs.opera.com/crypto/2022/01/opera-crypto-browser-project-web3/>.
> Long story short, you can now access emoji-only-based web addresses and
> register your unique strings of emojis as your personal domains.
>
> With Opera as the *first browser to enable emoji-only based web addresses*,
> we’re bringing a new level of creativity to the internet, letting you
> navigate the web with strings of emojis as URLs, instead of letters and
> words.
>
> This is a major shift in the way the internet works, and is sign of the
> changing times. Thirty-some years ago, the world wide web was first
> launched to the public, but not much has changed in regards to weblinks,
> and we still use .com in our URLs. Now though, through this integration
> with Yat, all you Opera fans can ditch .com, or even words in general, and
> make your way to websites using emojis. It’s new, it’s easier and certainly
> a lot more fun.
>
> The emojification of Opera is thanks to Yat <https://emojis.y.at/>, the
> company that allows you to own personalized strings of emojis. The
> emoji-centric integration lets you easily find yat pages—unique domains
> that are generated when you create a yat from a personalized string of
> emojis...."
>
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