Give you three seconds and ask you to say a URL, which one will you think of? Whether it is the baidu that tests the internet, or the 4399 that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the easy to remember website has become the common memory of a generation.
Recently, companies have had enough of boring URLs and claimed to replace them with more vivid memes — for example.
As one of the top five major web browsers in the world, Opera wants you to access websites directly with Emoji. Type in opera and you'll open theuselessweb.com. Obviously is much easier to remember than a string of letters...
This is a useless website that takes you randomly to useless websites...
You can also register for the Emoji website yourself. On the registration page, the website will rate the emoticons you enter. The higher the score, the higher the price:
Scientific research three consecutive 58 points / 70 US dollars;
Speechless three consecutive 68 cents / 140 US dollars;
Workplace Triple 74 cents/ $215...
Repetitive emojis can get a high score of 99 points, and combinations with less than 3 expressions need private chat to buy.
The three combinations are rated 58 points and cost $70. Whoops, is it so cheap to discriminate against researchers (isn't it)
However, many people are full of question marks for Opera's "innovation": this kind of URL is not only difficult to type, but it is also not a new thing...
Cold rice is hotly fried
This isn't the first time Emoji has appeared in the URL bar. In 2016, SamoaNIC, which manages the top-level domain of .ws, became the world's first domain name authority to support user-owned registry love pack domains. By 2018, there were as many as 25,000 meme domains under .ws. Budweiser, for example, registered a very straightforward domain name of .ws, while Warby Parker, which sells glasses, used a more concise .ws.
I can use emoji thanks to people in non-Native English speaking countries. In 1996, Martin Dürst of the University of Zurich first proposed a way to reverse convert non-Latin alphabet languages into ASCII encoded characters. After much discussion and comparison of various proposals, the current Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) scheme was finally adopted as a formal standard.
When you enter a domain name with special characters, the browser uses an encoding specification called punycode to convert the special characters into a URL consisting of letters, numbers, and "-" signs, as required by the IDNA standard. Simply put, special characters in the URL bar are converted to standard strings. This approach allows users around the world to enter a domain name directly in their native language. And Emoji also "rubbed" this convenience. For example, .la will be converted to xn--ls8h.la.
In comparison, Opera simply did not want the "little tail" this time, leaving only Emoji. But in a way, this is not progress: when you spend a few hundred dollars on an Emoji website and are happy to tell others, you will find that others will most likely not be able to open the website you set up... The biggest problem with Opera's emoji domain name is that it can only be used in their own browser.
Technically, Opera's Emoji url isn't even a "domain name." When you type emoji in the Opera browser, the program will automatically fill in the y.at in front of the emoticon, thus turning it into a real URL. Of course, this exclusive feature can only be used on the Opera browser.
Emoji is really just a part
This seemingly interesting, but in fact, laborious and undesirable thing has long been a "traditional art" in the field of domain names. From the existence of domain names to the present, countless people have worked hard to do things in the web address column.
World-class university .com
Now that you have an IDN, it's not unusual for Chinese web addresses to appear. There are many universities and official websites that support Chinese URLs, such as you enter "Tsinghua University" in the URL bar. WEBSITE" can open the official website of Tsinghua University.
What makes Chinese website really "out of the circle" is a "first-class university competition". On February 6, 2020, someone registered for the "World-Class University .com" and pointed it to the official website of Peking University. Subsequently, "the world's top universities .com", "the universe's first-class universities.com"... The domain names of various "first-class universities" have been registered one after another, pointing to the official websites of different universities.
Just as the "first-class universities" were fighting, another track appeared. On February 23, 2020, the domain name "Withdrawal .com" suddenly appeared and was pointed to the homepage of Dalian University of Technology. Then, in the "parallel world of withdrawal", there were "light speed withdrawal .com", "world-class dropout .com" and so on. Of course, these domains are all playing with memes, and some of them are not currently renewed and cannot be accessed.
Some strange domain names (some have expired) 丨 World University.top (Bilibili @zsh2517)
Of course, some people also make the Chinese domain name of the terrier into a serious website. In episode 14 of the second part of the TV series "Love Apartment", there was a "www.Zhang Wei is a bastard .com". Shortly after the episode aired, fans of the series registered the domain. This site is dedicated to discussing TV series content and publishing related fan works. As of August 2018, the site's top articles have been read by more than 1.79 million people. This website still exists, but with the end of the TV series, the content of the website has stopped. However, in the message board, you can still see the updated message message.
There are many domain names abroad that win from the "word count". According to the technical requirements of the domain name system, the maximum length of each level of domain name can only be 63 characters, and the total length of a domain name cannot exceed 253 characters. In 2000, someone registered a 63-character domain name: thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com and used it to apply for the Guinness Book of Records, but (unsurprisingly) it was rejected. Guinness Records officials say they don't want to deal with this kind of meaningless and effortless thing. Later, there were 1111....com (60 1s) and 3.1415... .com (including Pi π 63 decimal places) and other strange domain names.
This pi website also hides a small game to find a menu, a certain page stores 1 million π value, you can look for this page according to the clue丨 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com
These domain names, which are separated from the purpose of "good memorability", have long gone farther and farther in the matter of doing things.
When Domain Names Become "Battlefields"
In addition to being funny, some people directly use the URL bar as a "weapon" and use the URL to frantically output attacks.
In 2010, Qihoo 360 and Tencent QQ were accusing each other of unfair competition, which eventually became the "3Q war" that went down in the annals of the Internet. Just when things were boiling over, someone pointed the domain named fuckqq.com to the 360 official website. This can't help but feel like a "conspiracy" of 360. Later, the boss of 360 Company ran to Weibo to personally refute the rumors, and claimed that "360 will block the domain name." But that didn't make quickqq disappear. Later, this domain name was used to build a website specializing in sex products... In 2018, Tencent sent a complaint to the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center, requesting arbitration of the domain name fuckqq.com. After a month of trial, the domain name was ordered to be transferred to Tencent.
Send a notification before the Q network shuts down
There are similar things abroad. In 2015, Google overhauled its corporate structure to form a parent company called Alphabet. Alphabet companies have registered abc.xyz such an address as the homepage of their website, implying that from abc to xyz, 26 letters are in the "alphabet".
Almost the same day, a domain name called abc.wtf popped up and automatically jumped to Google's old (dead) friend (to) friend (head): Bing, a search engine owned by Microsoft. Wtf is not a good word, probably equivalent to our "sleeper what ghost". Microsoft immediately said that the domain name had nothing to do with them, and that jumping to the Bing homepage had nothing to do with Microsoft.
Whether it's with emoji or strange Chinese and English symbols, humans doing things on domain names has become a traditional project of the Internet. This way has actually departed from the original intention of "easy to remember". In the Web 2.0 era, people can use search engines, recommendation algorithms, and various apps to obtain information. To people, the importance of domain names seems to be decreasing.
However, with the continuous popularization of the Internet of Things and IPv6, we will enter the era of Internet of Everything, and the devices that need to rely on domain names to access are no longer limited to website servers, and the importance of communication between devices will increase day by day. The identification and resolution of network addresses will become one of the important components of the communication network, and the domain name system will also develop in a faster, more stable and more secure direction, laying the foundation for a better smart life.
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[1] Opera now lets you ditch boring web links and use emojis instead. https://blogs.opera.com/news/2022/02/opera-emoji-links-yat/
[2] Yat. https://y.at/
[3] What is a Yat and why are people paying $425K for emojis? https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-is-a-yat-and-why-are-people-paying-425k-for-emojis
[4] world university.top https://xn--rhqr3ykwbxv0c.top/
Internet Governance Research Center, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. http://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP202006221386495521_1.pdf
[6] Is Bing Trolling Google & Alphabet With ABC. WTF Redirect? https://searchengineland.com/is-bing-trolling-googlealphabet-with-abc-wtf-redirect-227587
Caption: https://blogs.opera.com/news/2022/02/opera-emoji-links-yat/ has been modified.
Author: Ou Shave
Edit: Owl, Window Knock rain
An AI
Go to the squatting immediately
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