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The latest viral moneygrab in crypto is here - emoji subdomains provided by a viral new site y.at.

- πŸ”‘.y.at sold for $425,000 yesterday at the live auction.

- πŸš€πŸŒ•.y.at also sold for $200,000, and many more 6 figure and 5 sales yesterday too - see https://destiny.y.at/

From their description:

"Yat lets you use emojis as your universal username and identity on the internet. Imagine being known as πŸ”₯πŸ‰.y.at or πŸ€–πŸ‘»πŸ‘‘ instead of coffeequeen98 or [email protected]

By owning a Yat - let’s say πŸŒŠπŸ”±πŸŒ΄ - it’s yours forever. You are the ~only~ one on earth who owns these emojis.

The possibilities are endless with Yat. You can receive payments, use it on your socials, and eventually much more. Your Yat can be used as a link like this: y.at/πŸŒŠπŸ”±πŸŒ΄ (click it to see it!) and automatically redirect visitors to any website you want."
 
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My prediction is that yat is actually the @ sign and they are going to push to get the ability to type it straight into the browser.

So you'll be able to type in @NamePros in your browser bar to go to namepros. I think this emoji thing is just a publicity stunt for what is to come. If they are really basing it off of just emojis, it is dumb and will be gone next year.

When you have friends in high places (google) and more money than any industry in existence, they can do just about anything.

Money cannot open every gate. Changes cannot be done in a short time.
People don't like rapid & sharp changes. They simply cannot adapt. This's fundamental human psychology, it's in our DNAs and none of those mortal evils have the power to change it.

In the other hand, you cannot just tie a word to a single place/person. Let's say I've the 'exclusive.com' and others might can have 'exclusive.club' or 'exclusive.de'
Variations are also fundamental beauty of our nature.
No body should be able to blockage any of those words. It's also same for branding and trademarking around world, except some huge brands.

So, no. That idea absolutely won't work for the current ecosystem of interwebs.
 
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NFT related?....

For the story @whatsyouryat bought their 1-letter domain hack y.at for *only* $13,750 last year in august namebio.com/y.at

They just made close to a million $ selling subdomain hacks.


looks like they just added ammunition.

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