question Whatever happened to Emoji Domains?

Good call...does it resolve??

Page Howe said:

Good call...does it resolve??

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yes it does! You have to use the extension or the dedicated browser, but it worked just fine for me!! I was so excited that I went to try and get some more. That's when I found out you can't register them any more.

ipfs://.zil/

Ah well, I suppose there's my answer. I had just sent a message off to UD support regarding this, why new searches come up as "invalid domain".

You've got a bit of a keeper there, Sarah.Kate.

TBH, if @Unstoppable Domains want to distinguish themselves as truly independent of ICANN rules, they should open up puny-code for emoji registrations.

Users have to learn for themselves what the proper domain is when they click it or enter it into the url bar or receive emails. We don't need to be babysat on this stuff, yet ICANN paints everyone with the same brush making us all dummies, thus disallowing emoji registrations on the major TLDs.

I hate that everyone has to pay the price for the people that don't know what they are doing. I thought the uncensored web (blockchain domains) would do away with this.

I remember there wasn't a rush on them and almost the opposite and would take a lot of convincing to get people to buy them.

What I do have is smuggish dot com maybe that smug face emjoi owner will want it.

Here are the major pros for emojis that given the right marketing campaign by a major influencer would work wonders:

1. Standardization and global universal support
2. Built-in ios & android keyboard
3. Mainstream appeal and consciousness (even our parents use them now)

I've made a few recent investments myself that I'll share with everyone soon.

Sam said:

Here are the major pros for emojis that given the right marketing campaign by a major influencer would work wonders:

1. Standardization and global universal support
2. Built-in ios & android keyboard
3. Mainstream appeal and consciousness (even our parents use them now)

I've made a few recent investments myself that I'll share with everyone soon.

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Agreed. There were eyes on them a couple years ago in the .ws extension when a biggie like Coca-Cola bought up a bunch of smilies. Worked wonders as you say. Congrats on your new investments, I saw one of those in an extension I never knew supported them.

Please feel free to give this thread a kick-start if any of you guys like;
https://www.namepros.com/threads/official-emoji-thread-discuss-and-show.1181686/

rather than a title asking where emojis are, we can can make it sort of an official discussion.

A little update on emoji domain names.

There's been some chatter (more of the novelty kind) of emoji domains on DNAcad's weekly social.

I think @Page Howe chimed in for a brief discussion.

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A lively discussion recently erupted on Twitter following a post from @Domain Shane

My favorite tweet in that exchange was from @Jon Roig


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Today, following a question from @Michael Cyger about listing an emoji domain on NameLiquidate, @Rob Monster troubleshot the punycode issue and enabled the emoji to be displayed.


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My thoughts on emoji's still stand.

I think emoji's are cool. But I never bought into the .ws way of thinking. Though, I have to give them props for their marketing efforts. I own a one .ws emoji, as a emoji domain defensive registration <I own one emoji in multiple ccTLDS> to prepare for:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1262364416730755075

thx, for the post, yes i saw the one on NL.

they wont be a thing til they are, its not guaranteed.

page

I believe in them and do really think they can become very big in the future.
I have still several of them. I wait for a good promotion on .WS or something.
and some income to invest again. Only some registrars support them all. And some browsers are only showing the difficult code instead of the emoji after clicking enter.

There has been a year or 2 ago on Namejet a sale of 50 .WS emoji-domains at several prices. But Namejet isn't for everybody.

The more and more browsers will sustain this and certainly if .com and .net would jump on the wagon again it could have a big influence.

It looks like Unstoppable Domains might be gearing up to allow emoji domains in the future. I was doing a search today and noticed that they are now coming up as "premium"