Digital Assets
When any asset is concerned the more you understand about it the better. Digital assets include websites, domain names, cryptocurrency, email addresses, emoji handles, social media accounts literally anything digital with supply and demand.
So firstly quite recently there have been some new developments regarding 3 emoji ™️, ℹ️ and Ⓜ️ emoji. The fact that there were 3 emoji without a code had eluded us until very recently.
"With the exception of the information emoji, the trademark emoji and the "m" emoji, for an emoji to work as a domain name it needs a so called "punycode". Wikipedia
This means that any domain with letters i tm m on either side of the dot, can be swapped out of for the emoji yet the domain will still automatically resolve back to their latin representation.
Some great reasons to use an emoji handle.
A picture speaks a thousand languages.
Emoji will gain support from the major browsers at some point as IDN do now (internationalised domain names), hopefully.
Some considerations when choosing your own emoji handle on Tumblr or Blogger.
- stands out alot
- it's commonly used
- adding keywords ....🐔o
Here's what you'll need to do.
1.Setup Blogger account.
2.Next find the emoji you want here.
3.Now you've found it, hit the copy button for your emoji, paste it into the text box here with the word at the same time, and hit "convert to punycode". punycoder.com
4.In your blogger account settings you'll be able to paste the xn-- code into the Blog address field or on Tumblr into the Tumblr URL field.
Where can you use it? Linkedin and Twitter have quite good support for emoji domains. Instagram now allows an emoji domain on your home page bio, however it was only for Android and Desktops. In a tweet use the xn--code not the emoji for it to work. IDN now have quite good support from major email providers and search engines.
WEATHERℹ️LIVE@Outlook.com doesn't work yet but some day soon maybe, or maybe not.
Where else can you use an emoji code as a username? Linkedin allow both the ℹ️ emoji and the ⓘ symbol and they each have unique codes to which means that are not universally approved by Unicode and work a little differently to normal as they have to entered in their emoji form upon registration which means that you skip the punycoder step, an in house type deal if you will, but to my knowledge Blogger, Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Wix and Gumtree and now g.Dev are 7 that allow the Unicode approved "Punycode", to be registered as a username, but for the purposes of a working emoji link on Twitter or Linkedin, Tumblr, Blogger and Wix is what our focus is on.
Some points for adding a custom domain to your Tumblr and Blogger site.
If you add a custom domain name to Blogger only, don't forget to add the 4 A records to your DNS.
- 216.239.38.21
- 216.239.36.21
- 216.239.34.21
- 216.239.34.21
Don't forget to add your new verification tags to Bing and Tumblr sites so that search engines can index your emoji handle as well as your domain name, and sign up for affiliate revenue.
