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

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear Satish,

thanks for your kind follow-up. You are absolutely correct. But big
corporations like Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, appear to be seeing
this as another potential huge market --- seeing that this has all
originated from Japan and is huge there. This is a considerable
commercial pressure.
As ICANN prides itself as being private sector led, I wonder whether the
pressure will be high enough to formalise these in the IDN LGRs?
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 13/03/2017 18:25, Satish Babu wrote:
> 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".
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> At this time, it's appears to be a fad, and perhaps a tad too early to
> predict where they are headed.
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> satish
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> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Satish Babu <sb at inapp.com
> <mailto:sb at inapp.com>> wrote:
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>     I have registered the following emoji-based domain name:
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>     🐧❤❤.ws <http://xn--qeia.ws>
>
>     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 <http://sdf.org>, a public Unix account (for
>     testing purposes)....seems to work on Chrome and Firefox on Linux.
>
>     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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>     satish
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>     On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
>     <ocl at gih.com <mailto:ocl at gih.com>> wrote:
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>         Dear all,
>
>         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
>         <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
>         <http://www.fileformat.info/info/emoji/poop/index.htm>>
>         because the DNS world is probably not ready for Emoji email
>         addresses...
>         Kindest regards,
>
>         Olivier
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