: What Unicode is allowed in domain names under ccTLDs? Western Somoa, Equilateral Ginuea, and some other countries don't use the IDN2008 protocol and allow Unicode including Emoji; something IDN2008

@Karen161

.WS is a very specific case, with very few others not following IDNA2008 (while some others may still be on IDNA2003 or not accepting IDNs at all).

(Wikipedia says there are 8 TLDs in that case, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain while xn--i-7iq.ws/#tlds claims that only .WS accepts them but speaks also about .LA in their history. YMMV)

This website (https://www.dnacademy.com/emoji-domains) says that .WS now supports the Emoji 5.0 standard, so all characters in it.

Also on www.worldsite.ws/idn-orderflow/index.dhtml?view=advanced if you look at the form at bottom on the left you have the scripts allowed so one can imagine you can use all characters in these scripts.

This rules out special characters like spacers, modifiers, etc. that should not be accepted if there is no bug.

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@Margaret670

Every ccTLD can create their own rules, so you aren't going to find a standard about what is used.

What I might do if I were trying to do what you are, is just type paste the emoji into either the search tool at the Registry site or into a unicode converter.

Example, if I wanted to find out what 6 hearts converted to, I'd go to website.ws and use their emoticon icon on the search bar to punch that in and see what unicode spits out. ❤❤❤❤❤❤.ws ---> xn--qeiaaaaa.ws

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