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How to Discover Interesting ENS Domain Emoji Words That Currently Work on Windows Machines Only
This is not likely to appeal to a wide audience, but I’ll share some code to help you out in case you’re interested. (And for those who don’t code, but are interested, I’ll share hundreds of available names!)
Today I thought I’d spend some more time in that not-quite NFT (but similar to NFT) space known as ENS domains — domains ending in .eth, specifically. These domains, which I wrote about here the other day, are still rather hot on Twitter among those in the NFT and crypto world, so it continues to be something I find myself at least somewhat interested in.
Anyway, with ENS names, you can actually register emojis as your domain names, which means you can grab names like this one of mine:
I thought that grabbing “🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌚.eth” would be fun because it shows every phase of the moon, in order from new moon back to new moon. It’s truly a one-of-a-kind name, and looks great (to me).
It also happens to look great on my particular machine, which is an important point about emojis — they appear differently system to system. And, for that reason, they’re probably tough to value, as I imagine they might change in years to come, which makes them perhaps somewhat ephemeral.
That said, I noticed a strange quirk with Windows machines, in particular, which is that Windows does not support country flag emojis. Instead, it displays them as two-letter country codes. They look like this:
My first thought was, “Wow, you can build words out of those codes!” And, literally, the first one that popped into my head after looking over the list was “NIKE.” So, I tried that on the ENS Domain registry site/app, and found that it was already registered. So, I figured others might be looking at this possibility — building out flag words —…
