.ws Emoji Domain Case Study: Weapon Depot and [gun emoji].ws

[Jon Roig]

As part of our ongoing adventures through the world of Emoji Domains, we talked to Robert Sirianni, Jr, owner of Weapon Depot.

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“Around 70% of our current traffic from .ws is coming from social media,” he says, helping Weapon Depot stand out from the crowd of other gun sellers.

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[xn--v4h.com]

That's a great interview Jon! The difference between Weapon Depot and Sonshi is that a majority of our traffic is via search engine while their is via social media. Of course we've been around since 1999.

 

[briguy]

"Apple made the change to the pistol emoji in 2016 with their iOS 10 update, meanwhile all other platforms like Android as well as other devices and browsers maintained the emoji as a pistol. Believe it or not the fact that Apple displays a green squirt gun benefited Weapon Depot in many different ways. For example, we ran a social media campaign giving away free green squirt guns to celebrate the use of the new emoji for Weapon Depot."

Loved how they turned a negative (squirt gun) and turned in into a positive, great example of marketing!