question Whatever happened to Emoji Domains?

[MapleDots]

When emoji domains exploded on the market a lot of namepros members thought they were the next big ticket to making money. Like a lot of new things there was the initial land rush and even a few extraordinary sales.

The question is where are they today? I cannot remember coming across even a single emoji domain advertised anywhere or even used for commercial purposes.

How many namepros members still own emoji domains and do you expect to make a profit from them?

Who has given up on them and who has lost money on them.

Will they become more useful in the future or will they just fade into oblivion?

Lets discuss and get some feedback from both sides of the coin.

 

[HotKey]

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.

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.

 

[Grilled]

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

https://twitter.com/x/status/1262451573382209536

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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.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1262762428774977536

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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

 

[Page Howe]

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

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

page

 

[Domainstore]

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.

 

[sarah.kate]

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"