Emoji in domains – show the world your mood!
Hooray! NIC.UA clients can now register emojis (smileys) in the .PP.UA, .CO.UA, and .BIZ.UA domains. We already have our own i❤.BIZ.UA. Awesome! Other major brands are doing this too. In 2015, Coca-Colaregistered a domain name?.ws for your advertising campaign,MailChimp, an online service for sending bulk emails, owns the domain?.ws, Sony Pictures - ??.ws, and the Budweiser brand has emoji aliases:???.ws And ❤?.ws, which lead to the main website budweiser.com
OniForum-2018 Anna Shakhdinaryan, Head of Internet ResearchKantar TNS— a global leader in marketing research, reported that the mobile audience in Ukraine continues to grow."WITH 39% in 2017 to 54.5% in 2018.Moreover45% of the population aged 12 to 70 consider the smartphone to be the primary device for accessing the Internet."The popularity of smartphones has led to the popularity of emoji. NIC.UA suggests using emoji not only in mobile messaging but also in the .PP.UA, .CO.UA, and .BIZ.UA domains.An emoji domain is a modern way to stand out in the market and outshine the competition. Register a memorable emoji domain for a landing page (single-page website) featuring a contest or promotional campaign for your product. And if you already have a website, be sure to choose a unique alias (middle name) withemojis that are suitable for your businessYou definitely won't go unnoticed online!
Read our article if you want to find out where emoji are hidden on your computer, how to register an emoji domain, and how it differs from a regular domain name.
Technical details
Each emoji symbol is a universal sequence of characters from Unicode, the international encoding standard,including signs of all the languages of the world.The symbols are decoded, and we see emoji. When new emoji are added to Unicode, a new version of the standard is announced. We based our work on the latest version of Unicode, Unicode 11.0, released on June 5, 2018, so you can find emoji to suit every taste. The full list of emoji available for registration can be found atUnicode Consortium page.
How does this work?
To translatecharacters from the Unicode standard, which includes emoji, into characters allowed in domain names, using a methodPunycode. This conversion is performed by the browser itself.Punycode only accepts letters, numbers, and hyphens, and begins with the four characters "xn--." Punycode is also used to encode internationalized domain names (IDNs), which use non-Latin characters. For example, the domain "smile.ua" in Punycode format would look like this: "xn--80asgby.ua."Technically, domain names with emojis are implemented in the same way as IDNs.
For example, when you enter a domaini❤.BIZ.UA in the browser line, ittranslates part of the domain name into itsPunycode format.Emojis in the domain are displayed only inSafari browser, in all the others we will seePunycode. For our examplei❤.BIZ.UA,Punycodelooks like this:«xn--i-7iq.biz.ua».
If you want to find out the details of the domain owner on the websiteDIG.UA, you just need to enter a domain with emoji, and the service will automatically translate it intoPunycode format.
Please note that domains used for email only support Punycode encoding. In our case, with the domain i❤.BIZ.UA, the address would look like this: "mail@xn--i-7iq.biz.ua."
How to find emoji on a computer?
If you have a MAC.Go to any text field, such as Notes, and press the following keys simultaneously:Command ⌘ + Control + Space.This will open a small input panel with emoji.
Advice:Some emojis offer a choice of skin tones and hair colors. Simply tap and hold the emoji to select the appropriate option.
If you have Windows 8 or Windows 10.You need to enableTouch Keyboardby right-clicking the bottom corner of the taskbar. A pop-up window like this will appear:
After you select "Show touch keyboard button"A keyboard icon will appear in the panel.
Click on it and you will see a keyboard with a button with a smiley face on it.
Click on it to change the keyboard layout from letters to emoji.
Advice:You can scroll through the emoji or use the categories at the bottom of the keyboard to see the full list.
How to register a domain with emoji on NIC.UA?
Register a domain with emojis on NIC.UAYou can use CO.UA, .PP.UA and .BIZ.UA zones.You can mix letters/numbers and your favorite emoji symbols.
If you already have a domain and want to register an alias for it, read our detailed instructions.How to set up a redirect for a domain.If any difficulties arise or questions arise,NIC.UA supportI'm always happy to help.
There are still plenty of available emoji domains—register them for business and personal use. NIC.UA will refund the cost of any emoji domain registered by August 31, 2018, to your bonus account. More domains—more bonuses!
