[IDN-WG] Are Emojis a pile of poo for the DNS?

[Satish Babu]

To add to my previous post, there appear to be two conflicting schools of
thought regarding emoji-based domain names.

The first sees them as a matter of concern, and an innovation that
"pollutes" the very concept of domain names. In contrast, the other says
this is where popular usage is heading, and "...ignore them at your own
peril".

At this time, it's appears to be a fad, and perhaps a tad too early to
predict where they are headed.






satish


On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Satish Babu <sb at inapp.com> wrote:

> I have registered the following emoji-based domain name:
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> 🐧❤❤.ws <http://xn--qeia.ws>
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> That's a penguin and two hearts, intended to indicate "I love Linux" (of
> course, in postfix notation). At present, only the Western Samoa (ws) ccTLD
> seems to allow this. Currently this resolves to sdf.org, a public Unix
> account (for testing purposes)....seems to work on Chrome and Firefox on
> Linux.
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> I find that the whole process of registration, as well as use, is very
> messy (despite a very large number of emojis available). Part of the
> problem is the way browsers and editors handle the string.
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> Just my 2 cents...
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> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
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>> Dear all,
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>> last night I had an interesting conversation about a potential challenge
>> for IDNs.
>> You thought that all of the different scripts were a challenge? Well one
>> thing about a script, is that for most of them, they are actually quite
>> identifiable. Now take Emojis, by popular demand! Yes, Emojis. Different
>> interpretations of them, different types of Emojis, different colours,
>> and a commercial pressure that is mounting for Emojis to usable in
>> Domain names.
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>> Discussion is going on in the IDNA update working group. Check the
>> thread around this message:
>> http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2017-March/007969.html
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>> It's going to be challenging for universal acceptance, and something
>> between a ♥ because consumers are apparently asking for them, and a
>> Gemoji image for :poop
>> <http://www.fileformat.info/info/emoji/poop/index.htm>
>> because the DNS world is probably not ready for Emoji email addresses...
>> Kindest regards,
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>> Olivier
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