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		reaperducer on July 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Spectre is Haunting Unicode If they're in Unicode, it should be possible to register ghost characters as a ghost domain name, right?

zamadatix on July 29, 2018 | [–]

I don't see why not. Hell, it's probably possible to register a domain name for characters that aren't even defined in Unicode yet.

reaperducer on July 29, 2018 | | [–]

So you could take a chance registering some not-yet-defined code point, and possibly end up with the next poop emoji as your e-mail address!

Worst lottery ever.

NVRM on July 29, 2018 | [–]

With Punycodes?

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