advice Value of .com emoji domain

[Isac]

I don't know anything about these kinds of domains like this one ☁.com . which was sold on flippa for $ 13,600 . Domain is an IDN . How much these kind of domains have value .

 

[lock]

If the next time i go buy a pc and I see one with smiles faces all over the keyboard i am going to have a cursing meltdown and just lose it.

 

[Kate]

Emoji Domains Transcend Language Barriers, are Easy to Remember and are Easy to Share.

They are not easy to remember. It's very easy to confuse similar variants of the same pattern for example:
or

And they are not easy to type since they are not found on standard keyboards.

Emoji domains will be extremely valuable in the coming years and are growing in value.

Novelty strictly...

And they are not new at all. They are as old as IDNs. Just another domainer-made hype.

 

[web3dev]

Yep they are valuable since you know at least one sold for $13,600 and all .com single emojis are registered.

 

[Plato]

I think only a few very popular single (1 character) emoji domains will be valuable. Those are really nice for promotions. But it's a high-risk investment.

 

[Orlando White]

I think emoji domains are valuable if used as a brandable commodity. I have three currently that are emoji text combo.

 

[Ategy]

I'm pretty sure the cloud domain in question was likely a .ws IDN.

The huge factor one needs to remember is that windows keyboards are not emoji friendly .. so a company could/should never use an emoji domain as their main website. They will also run into email issues as they aren't supported everywhere.

Also note that emoji domains are not currently available for .com, and for most main TLD's .. the most common TLD that supports emojis is .ws. Note that I think a small number of .com emoji domains exist and are grandfathered from before emoji .com's were blocked.


So with that being said .. I still do think that emoji domains could have significant value as marketing/forwarding domains. What holds me back is not the emoji part of the domain .. but the .ws .. I'm not against holding ultra-premium keyword .ws domains as they have a relative liquid value (even if it's a small fraction of the equivalent .com).

However the problem here is that emoji domains currently are not available in .com so that is artificially inflating .ws emoji prices because the .ws version is more or less "unique". To hold the only or <3 domain is worth something .. but the moment emoji's become available in .com I personally think the relative .ws emoji price will melt.

That being said .. without hesitation, I'd certainly pay $xxx for the most common SINGLE CHARACTER emojis in .ws .. and I'd say common SINGLE EMOJI .com domains will certainly be worth $xxxx and up for the ultra common ones.

One important warning however .. I know emoji's are "evolving" .. the recent standards I think do not includes colour variants .. but I think that is supposed to change .. so emoji that eventually gets multiple skin-tone versions will see their value deteriorate as that domain will bleed traffic to the variant skin-tones.


@DomainSherpa did a show on these domains recently .. I'd highly advice anyone thinking of getting an emoji domain to check out the show BEFORE buying.


In the end I think some cool stuff can be done with emoji domains .. certainly some smart advertising campaigns ... but the lack of emojis on the standard PC keyboard will always hold these back to some degree .. if/when they become available and usable in .com that's when I'd take a 2nd look. Otherwise I'd only be interested in getting ultra common single emoji domains in .ws (I don't own any).

 

[shayan]

I'm pretty sure the cloud domain in question was likely a .ws IDN.

It was indeed .com and not .ws. There were about ~45 .com emojis available back in 2004, as mentioned by Matan on DomainSherpa's show on Emoji's.

The huge factor one needs to remember is that windows keyboards are not emoji friendly .. so a company could/should never use an emoji domain as their main website. They will also run into email issues as they aren't supported everywhere.

You definitely do not use it as a primary domain address, let alone an email address.... They are strongly suited for advertising campaigns. Here are some to get an idea:

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

The value of an emoji .com domain follows the same rule like a non emoji .com domain:
It has exact the value what the highest bidder is willing to payyy

 

[CJ6]

I have an emoji domain forwarding to my personal website. Not for monetary profit, just for fun.
People do want these. People probably will really want them with the movie coming out later this year.

 

[Wannabean]

Difficult to type in but if you don't mind marketing the link it would look pretty cool in promotional material. You'd be relying solely on direct traffic from your adverts and then return customers bookmarking you though. Messy.

Might make a nice redirect though...

 

[XYZdotCLUB]

Cliam.club is offering the 13K USD Cloud IDN domain on Undeveloped.com for just 2,000,000 Euro (monthly payment plan available )

 

[Orlando White]

Using Emojis in Ad Text Boosts CTR!

http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/05/27/emojis-in-ad-text

 

[tonecas]

people will never learn

 

[Orlando White]

people will never learn

It's an example of the old guard, you will not pass!

 

[hugegrowth]

I can't believe there are emoji domains.

 

[Teddy7]

Yes they are:
like ..cf, ws, .tk, .ml ....

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Letters are vector graphics.
Emojis too.

Every smartphone has a virtual emoji keyboard included!!!
So what is the problem???

 

[hugegrowth]

Hard to type in on a keyboard though.

 

[creataweb]

 

[hugegrowth]

My keyboard doesn't look like that. lol