I recently discovered .to domains allow for emoji like .ws and a few other ccTLDs.<p>While they have some (technical) downsides I figured they'd be interesting to experiment with so I was curious if any good ones were still available. Manually checking them one-by-one was kinda cumbersome, so I wrote a simple script to check availability for each possible single-emoji .to domain.<p>Turns out many were still available (about 70% at the time). I registered a few and decided to publicise the list. That was my weekend project ~2 weeks ago. Today I finally launched it.<p>I wrote more about the timeline and how I built it here: <a href="https://medium.com/@marckohlbrugge/get-your-own-emoji-domain-with-to-d2b0c79d3618" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@marckohlbrugge/get-your-own-emoji-domain...</a><p>Disclosure: I worked out an affiliate deal with my registrar so I get a 10% commission for each registration. Of course you're free to use your own registrar of choice.
Domain name is the interface to a website, typing in emojis is bad UX. Not to mention sharing URLs, and how different user agents will handle them.<p>IMO, It's a safe bet against emoji domains taking off.