Emoji Domains -

[Autopsy]

Emoji Domains exist. That makes for a lot of fun redirects if you have the money, some of them are going for thousands of dollars ([popcorn].ws is bidding at 3600 at a recent glance, probably theater companies looking for a shiny new advert). The gist of how it works is that it parses the unintelligible gibberish into a standardized code, letting you stack emoji in a url, thereby opening up a huge market for one or two tap mobile domains. Only a few extensions support it (mostly from tiny countries looking to make some free money), but of note are .to and .ai, which have some really obvious applications for marketing. I'm actually sort of surprised ‍.to doesn't redirect straight to thePirateBay.

What are your thoughts? Is this :autism:.ws? Should Kiwifarms have an Emoji Domain redirect? The answers are yes and no respectively, but I've thrown up a poll anyway.
Currently, [kiwi].ws is owned by this guy and since the kiwi emoji is fairly new, .to and .ai don't support it yet; [kiwi][tractor].ws is available for 5$ at GoDaddy.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

If KF doesn’t get an Emoji domain I will starve myself in protest.

 

[Jequiti]

I like the idea of [Kiwi][Tractor].ws

 

[AF 802]

GoFundMe for KF emoji domain?

 

[Autopsy]

GoFundMe for KF emoji domain?

Shouldn't be a hard target, depending on the combo. Even [kiwi].ws shouldn't be that bad even if some domain farmer snatched it up, the only competition for that domain would be an oddly specific farming company, maybe some health food sites, or hobbyists who want a zany url.

 

[m0rnutz]

Someone buy the (kiwi)(tractor) domains, quick