Emoji domains can be registered using punycode, and you’re right that it’s up to the TLD whether they’re allowed or not.

For example: http://📙.la/🐶

📙.la is encoded using punycode to http://📙.la/

🐶 is URL-encoded to %F0%9F%90%B6

Giving the ‘true’ URL http://📙.la/🐶 which then redirects to https://emojipedia.org/dog-face

Emails should generally use @xn--yt8h.la instead of @📙.la for maximum compatibility. I’m not sure if the email spec allows punycode.

I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

This was fun!

Edit: people, upvote the OP, not me

Great question, very interested to hear the answer if anyone knows. Please mention me, future posters!

I expect the answer to be very different for Gaza and for the west bank.

My best guesses (NOT BASED ON KNOWLEDGE, JUST SPECULATION):

West Bank perhaps can connect to Israeli telecom service providers. I’m guessing that’s what Israeli settlements in the west bank do, so no reason why Palestinian cities wouldn’t do that too.

As for Gaza, again their only telecommunications have to be through Israel. It appears that Israel can literally just stop the internet service (and electricity and water for that matter), and Gaza would be in the dark. The fact that Israel isn’t doing this is a bit of an enigma to me - not because I think they should (I don’t), but because it’s very obvious the the Israeli government thinks it should. Some ministers have literally said as much.