[dns-operations] Emoji "Female" symbol fails to resolve at Google's 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4

James Stevens James.Stevens at jrcs.co.uk
Thu Jul 13 13:58:25 UTC 2017


I was referring to this recent interview on the subject

https://www.icann.org/news/multimedia/2857


"Andrew McConachie, ICANN Technical and Policy Specialist, interviews 
Patrik Fälström, SSAC Chair, about the reasons why emojis cannot be used 
in the domain names"


On 12/07/17 15:14, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> I can sympathise with ICANN not wanting them in the ROOT, but they
>> seem pretty harmless at the second level - especially as Egyptian
>> Hieroglyphs are allowed.
> The ship has sailed, it is RFC 5892 (*not*  ICANN).
> 



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