I am trying to register an emojii domain, like Panic did, but I can't seem to get the registrar to recognize the Unicode version of the emojii. Panic's domain is: http://xn--di8h.la/. I was trying to register with both Hover and iwantmyname (which was recommended by Panic) and neither of them will allow me to register a domain with xn--...
characters.
I just registered a few of these yesterday.
Use http://domai.nr first and type in your emoji icon with the TLD of '.tk'. It will then try to find it, say it is possibly available, then click the iwantmyname link below. It will take you to iwantmyname with the domain pre-populated along with the unicode for it and will allow you to finish the process.
However, I find that many of them are no longer available. So even though domai.nr will say it is possibly available, only iwantmyname will actually tell you.
.tk
and.ws
registries currently support emoji domain registration. Will post more here as we learn more. – Case Feb 23 '15 at 20:49