Re: Emoji domains

2012-03-03 Thread Philippe Verdy
and .com confusion, I had misread the initial message that I had to retrieve back from history. Le 1 mars 2012 08:25, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com a écrit : Apparently Tokelau (.tk) will also register emoji domains. http://iwantmyname.com/domains/tk-tokelauan-domain-name-registration

Re: Emoji domains

2012-03-03 Thread Philippe Verdy
, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com a écrit : Apparently Tokelau (.tk) will also register emoji domains. http://iwantmyname.com/domains/tk-tokelauan-domain-name-registration-for-tokelau

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
Le 28 février 2012 14:25, Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr a écrit : On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 01:30:04PM +0100,  Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote  a message of 54 lines which said: But the ICANN normally has a signed contract with the registry Certainly not. Not with the vast

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-29 Thread António Martins-Tuválkin
On 2012/2/29 Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: We were discussing here about a domain in the .com gTLD, which is certainly ruled by the ICANN contract. No, we're not. We're discussing a domain in the .la ccTLD (Laos). Actually, we're discussing in broader sense — funny characters in

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-29 Thread Christopher Fynn
Apparently Tokelau (.tk) will also register emoji domains. http://iwantmyname.com/domains/tk-tokelauan-domain-name-registration-for-tokelau

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 09:55:11PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in-nomine.org wrote a message of 14 lines which said: So I guess they did not check the codepoint categories in their validation step then? Probably. People are free to ignore RFCs (or UTRs).

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:47:04AM +0600, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com wrote a message of 7 lines which said: Come to think of it, Unicode could probably fund itself by selling code points for this ;-) RFC 5241 already explored a similar idea http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5241.txt

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
But the ICANN normally has a signed contract with the registry that it wil operate for the general benefit of the communities, using *fair* commercial practice. The same contract then assumes that this will be observed by registrars who should also operate fairly. If a registrar sells a name that

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 01:30:04PM +0100, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote a message of 54 lines which said: But the ICANN normally has a signed contract with the registry Certainly not. Not with the vast majority of TLD (for instance, they do not have one with .fr). The same

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-28 Thread Christopher Fynn
On 28/02/2012, Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:47:04AM +0600, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com wrote a message of 7 lines which said: Come to think of it, Unicode could probably fund itself by selling code points for this ;-) RFC 5241 already

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-27 Thread Christopher Fynn
On 27/02/2012, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in-nomine.org wrote: -On [20120226 21:11], Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzme...@nic.fr) wrote: Note that it is a direct violation of RFC 5892. U+1F4A9, being of category So, should be DISALLOWED. The registry was wrong to accept it. Oh, this will

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-27 Thread Christopher Fynn
On 28/02/2012, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com wrote: Now isn't everyone going to want their logo encoded so they can have a domain like this? ~ The pressure to do so could be enormous. Come to think of it, Unicode could probably fund itself by selling code points for this ;-)

Emoji domains

2012-02-26 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
IDN and emoji combined brings you the wonderful domain of: http://.la/(It should be U+1F4A9.) I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this marvel of technology. :) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ |

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 08:22:04PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in-nomine.org wrote a message of 11 lines which said: IDN and emoji combined brings you the wonderful domain of: Note that it is a direct violation of RFC 5892. U+1F4A9, being of category So, should be

Re: Emoji domains

2012-02-26 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20120226 21:11], Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzme...@nic.fr) wrote: Note that it is a direct violation of RFC 5892. U+1F4A9, being of category So, should be DISALLOWED. The registry was wrong to accept it. Oh, this will be fun. So I guess they did not check the codepoint categories in their