In the Opora post: “The truth is that over 90% of the world’s 4.6 billion internet users express themselves with emojis, and the integration of Opera provides a new and easy way for anyone to leave a mark on the web. Opera says it offers a different, easier and more fun approach to the system that has remained unchanged for more than 30 years in creating URLs with emoji-based web addresses. The new experience, developed as part of the project developed in partnership with Yat, a company that sells emoji-based URLs, is a combination of Opera’s Windows, Mac, Android and iOS browsers along with Opera Crypto Integrated into Browser Project. In its new breakthrough, Opera has become the first browser to allow users to create custom URLs with a set of emojis instead of letters and words. This means strings of emojis in the URL bar for users to navigate to a website. According to a recent post by the company, emoji-based web addresses are coming. With the Opera integration, users won't have to type in the y.at part of the Yat page web address as they do in other browsers.Opera aims to offer a different experience on the web. The company introduced Yat pages on February 1. Yat co-founder Naveen Jain said Yat emoji domains let users personalise their internet identity, potentially giving creators, artists, and others, more visibility online. The owner of a Yat can create an NFT of their emoji string, and the company plans to eventually let users connect their Yats to electronic payments.Īccording to the company, musicians are among the early adopters of Yats for instance, singer Kesha's Yat page is the emojis Rainbow Rocket Alien (editor note: Vox's CMS does not allow rendering of emojis), followed by y.at, which redirects to her Kesha's World website. Yat pages are unique domains generated when someone purchases a string of emoji (which itself is called a Yat).

com in their URLs,' Jorgen Arnesen, executive vice president of mobile at Opera, was quoted as saying in a statement. 'It is been almost 30 years since the world wide web launched to the public, and there has not been much innovation in the weblink space: people still include. The integration is part of a partnership with Yat, a company that sells URLs with strings of emoji in them, reports The Verge. San Francisco, Feb 15 (IANS) Web browser company Opera has said it will enable emoji-only based web addresses 'to bring a new level of creativity to the internet'.

Opera browser now emojionly addresses