Wot, You are exactly right. Nobody would do that ever because it never ever made any sense at all to anyone. It would be like selecting a picture that you took from your own cell phone then trying to add a dot and a tld. Makes no sense at all. Wouldn't do anything.
They would now because it is now a reality that nobody knew before the end of last year.
After people hear it, they may dismiss it and say, ahh cool. nice. have fun with it. But when you see it actually works, then their response is much more surprising. People are wide eyed and bushy tailed. Almost excited to see this new tool that could very quickly and easily be forwarded to anywhere, their website, facebook, linked in, etc.. Believe me, because I have had this conversation many times with people and have showed them in their own phones.
Nobody knew this was even a possibility until very recently.
Jon Roig, He works at GoDaddy. He is also the chief scientist at Domain Research Group. He won a Hackathon in Nov last year and created a bad a$$ tool to make emoji registrations insanely easy. Not by typing in the xn--etc dot ws stuff but by typing in your desired emojis. His site is
heart heart heart dot ws. I would write it here but NP doesnt have an emoji database here.
Matan Israel from
EmojiUrl.com went to NamesCon in Jan of this year to introduce these cool dot ws emoji domains to us domainers.
Mike Cyger (Domain Sherpa) was also at NamesCon this Jan. He had an awesome
video interview shortly after NamesCon with Jon and Matan all about this new world of dot ws emoji domains. Mike also wrote
one of the best articles I have read on these ws emoji domains on his other site, DNAcademy. Basically the whole entire history of the codes, the sales, etc.
So as more people find out that it IS in fact a reality that you can tap on an emoji and add the dot ws (branded for website) then you can get to your site now with an emoji up in the address bar.
So, you are right. Nobody would even think of tapping on an emoji and then adding their dot and their ws because before too long ago, it did not make any sense.
Why would they now?
Because it makes perfect sense after learning that it is a possibility and after actually seeing it done. Its fast, easy and just cool.
