Just to follow up... I totally won the Hackathon! Thanks ProductHunt! It was pretty compelling to do my little demo with the logs of people checking domain registrations scrolling by furiously in the background. Besides the unending admiration of my coworkers *cough* *cough* and a shoutout from our CEO, I won a new laptop... which is awesome, since my wife managed to finally kill her old one last week. Thanks!
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How did it work for you guys?
I bought 💥🔑.ws for https://pulpkey.com :)
Just got the order confirmation from GoDaddy but they are not showing the domain in the dashboard. When called they said the registry failed to process the domains. Anyone else?
@rliriano@naseem_raad That's weird... it uses the main GoDaddy cart process, so it should be just like registering a normal domain. I don't have a lot of insight into why that wouldn't work, but if it gives you trouble, I'd definitely contact GoDaddy customer service. (They're pretty good.) If you can't get help, hit me up and I'll see what I can do.
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I love the idea! I'ts a shame emojis are not kept in the address bar... I mean you don't see this: ❤️❤️❤️.ws but this https://xn--qeiaa.ws
Do you think this could be "corrected" in the future?
This is interesting, will be fun to see big companies like apple pay hoards of cash for 🍎.ws at some point haha. The real question though: How many characters do these take away from your 140 on @twitter?
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@louis_sugar URLs no longer take any characters on Twitter and even before that change all URLs, no matter the length, took 23 characters.
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