Hiro provides a domain registration service that lets brands, marketers, and individuals register any Unicode emoji as a top‑level domain (e.g., 🍕.hiro).
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Brands and individuals lack a simple way to secure memorable, visual web addresses that leverage the universally recognized emoji characters, limiting their ability to create language‑independent, instantly recognizable URLs for marketing and branding.
Solution
Hiro offers a domain registration platform that treats any Unicode emoji as a top‑level domain name. Users can search for, purchase, and manage emoji domains that function like traditional domains, pointing to websites or redirecting traffic. By using the global emoji set, the service enables brand identities that are instantly recognizable across cultures and languages without relying on conventional .com or other TLDs. Once registered, the emoji domain provides exclusive ownership and can be integrated with standard DNS records, allowing seamless use with existing web infrastructure.
Target Audience
Primary customers are brands, marketers, and individual creators seeking distinctive, language‑neutral web addresses for campaigns, product launches, or personal branding.
Features
- Direct registration of any Unicode emoji as a top‑level domain (e.g., 🍕.hiro)
- Standard DNS management tools for pointing the emoji domain to hosting services or redirects
- Immediate global recognizability through the universal emoji character set
- Exclusive ownership model: once an emoji domain is purchased, it cannot be re‑registered by others
- Compatibility with existing web browsers and mobile platforms that support emoji URLs