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

Sun Feb 20 16:51:41 UTC 2022

The GNSO policy on this was to follow the SSAC guidance and not allow them.

What’s a bit confusing is that *some* ccTLDs not only allow emojis, but actively promote them.

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From: Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 16:50
To: Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele at blacknight.com>
Cc: Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>, At-Large Worldwide <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Opera now lets you ditch boring web links and use emojis instead

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Recall the argument against emoji characters in a name stems from the fact that while emoji - and emoji-like - characters are accorded Unicode subscription, their categorization and the lack of a single acceptable standard for rendering them made their consistent interpretation and resolution 'touchy, at best'.  The conclusive advice: disallowed.

The IDN taskforce and Universal Acceptance folks have been grappling with this for some time now.

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 09:09, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via At-Large <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>> wrote:
I’ve been *trying* to use a domain name with a fada (accent) in it both to send a receive email.
It has NOT been going well:

https://michele.blog/trying-domains-with-accents-again-idn-domains/

So the likelihood of this emoji thing working with email is about slim to none

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From: At-Large <at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org>> on behalf of Dev Anand Teelucksingh via At-Large <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>>
Date: Friday, 18 February 2022 at 15:17
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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

https://blogs.opera.com/news/2022/02/opera-emoji-links-yat/

"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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