By Michael Cyger, Publisher of DomainSherpa & DNAcademy
It’s easy to dismiss emojis – consisting of silly faces and undefined symbols – as a language only for teenagers.
But remember, more than one thousand written symbols date back to 3,000 BCE hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt, and some of them are still used today. They’re not just a fad – here today, gone tomorrow. And as they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words.
Emojis transcend borders, languages and technology. And the emoji language is integrated into your mobile phone, listed between Dutch and Estonian.
Plus, with less emojis than three-character domain names (2,389 emojis versus 17,576 LLL.com) there’s definitely a supply issue.
Will emojis be the next domain name breakout trend that nobody expected?
What the Heck Is an Emoji? 😁
An emoji is a small image used in digital communications – primarily text messages and social media posts.
Emoji categories include:
- smileys and people
- animals and nature
- food and drink
- activities
- travel and places
- common objects
- symbols
- flags
The word emoji comes from the Japanese words: e (絵, “picture” – pronounced “eh”) and moji (文字, “character”). You might hear people refer to emojis as pictograms or pictographs, which is what they used to be called and is technically a better translation for emoji in Japanese.
Japanese mobile phones were the first to allow emojis – each using their own proprietary characters and standards. The first set of 176 emojis was released in 1999 and drawn on a 12 x 12 pixel grid for the then-simple, text-only phone displays by Shigetaka Kurita, who was part of the team working on NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode mobile internet platform.
Emoji Evolution 👶
Emoticon: :—)
Pictograph: 
(IDN format xn--84h)
Emoji: 😀 (IDN format xn--e28h)
Pictographs (aka pictograms or pictures of things) like a white sun with black rays ☼, were some of the earliest written elements found thousands of years ago. We then evolved to logograms, which are symbols for words like $ for money. And then ideograms, which include ideas like a red cross for hospital.
Worldwide adoption of emojis continued to grow over the years, but popularity grew exponentially starting in 2007 when Apple included the emoji keyboard in their iPhone, which was quickly followed by Android- and Microsoft-powered phones.
Emoji Domain Names 🕴
When emojis grew in popularity, some internet pioneer asked the question:
He then registered the first emoji domain and renewed it for years – even though nobody else saw value in it (hello, Rick Schwartz buying domains like TopSecret.com and Property.com in the mid-1990s when everyone else thought .com domain names were worthless).
And so the first emoji domain name was registered.
Actually, three were registered on the first day:
| ♨️.com (xn--j6h.com) | ♨️.net (xn--j6h.net) | ☮.com (xn--v4h.com) |
|---|
All three were registered April 19, 2001. (I’ll tell you how I figured this out below.)
ASCII, Puny and IDNs 😫
But you’re probably wondering why there’s both an image AND some crazy domain name starting with “xn--” listed above.
Here’s the deal.
Each emoji character is represented by some universal sequence of characters called Unicode, which is an international programming standard that allows one operating system to recognize text from another operating system.
Prior to 2010, only ASCII characters could be used when registering a domain name. Because of this, two algorithms called ToASCII and ToUnicode were developed to translate Unicode into ASCII, and vice versa. Then an encoding process called Punycode creates the domain name. 😴 Yes, this is technically confusing, and yes, that’s a strange name.
In Punycode, only letters, digits and hyphens are allowed, and then the four characters “xn--” are prepended.
Second-level domains starting with “xn--” are also referred to as Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) because they allow non-ASCII based languages that require diacritics (e.g., Spanish, French) and or use non-Latin scripts (e.g., Kanji and Arabic) to render properly in ASCII.
When you type 🦄.ws into your web browser, the browser translates the emoji portion of the domain name into its IDN (in this case xn--3s9h.ws), looks up the domain name system information, and then loads the associated website.
When doing a WHOIS lookup on 🦄.ws, you will need to determine the IDN first (using punycoder.com), and then perform your search: https://whois.domaintools.com/xn--3s9h.ws
Emoji Standards 📏
The Unicode Consortium, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, is entrusted to define emoji characters and to encode symbols into Unicode. Founded in 1991, the Unicode Consortium consists of a loose network of contributing members – much like what ICANN is for domain names.
In the 2000s, Google realized the importance of emojis and worked to translate emoji characters to Unicode. In 2007, Google and Apple filed a joint proposal for emoji standards with the Unicode Consortium, which was accepted, and cross-platform standards for emojis were born.
In 2010, ICANN (the governing body for domain names) put in place rules called “IDN2008” disallowing about eight thousand characters – including emojis – in general top-level domains (think .com, .net and .org) due to “homograph” (visually confusable characters) attacks. 😈
If you had the vision to register an emoji domain name prior to this date, then you’re golden. Today, you can only register emojis in country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) that allow them, like .ws (Western Samoa) and a few others.
The current set of Unicode Consortium-approved emoji characters (version 4.0 as of this publishing) includes more than 2,389 characters.
But as with anything good, more is better. Right?
People asked for a face vomiting 
. And an avocado 🥑. And people of color 👩🏿🎨. (You too can submit a proposal for an emoji, and here are the current emoji prospects for the next release.)
So the Unicode Consortium went to work. They had to invent the emojis, design them, gather input, approve them, encode them and publish them.
New emojis should then appear on mobile phones and web browsers as soon as companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft add them to their operating systems.
In the summer of 2016, the Unicode Consortium launched more than 250 new emojis, ranging from rolling on the floor with laughter 🤣 to the long awaited Mrs. Claus 🤶.
And in fall of the same year, the Unicode Consortium added diversity to emojis, providing an option to choose the skin tone of emojis with faces and hands based on the FitzPatrick scale, a recognized standard for dermatology.
New emoji standards (or versions) are launched periodically to align with worldwide use and trends. For example, why would anyone in 2001 have wanted a smiling pile of poop emoji? Today, it’s a critical way to communicate a feeling or outcome. 💩
| Version | Launch |
|---|---|
| Emoji 1.0 | August 2015 |
| Emoji 2.0 | November 2015 |
| Emoji 3.0 | June 2016 |
| Emoji 4.0 | November 2016 |
| Emoji 5.0 (beta release) | March 2017 |
The Emoji 5.0 standard is being planned and no launch date has been announced yet. Even though the emoji characters have been defined, they may not be supported by browsers or mobile phones yet.
Emoji 5.0 💥
On March 8, 2017 – without any notification – version 5.0 emojis were able to be registered at website.ws. The “gold rush” started, and all were reserved within hours.
Here is the full list of currently approved emojis.
Here is the full list including pending emojis. New characters are shown as a group with “…” before and after. 
And here’s a description of what all the table headers mean.
As mentioned earlier, pictographs are simplified symbols, such as WHITE SUN WITH RAYS ☼ U+263C, and even though they can be translated into a domain name such as xn--94h.net, it is not an emoji domain name because is it not part of the latest emoji standard.
There is overlap between the Unicode Emoji Standard and the Unicode Standard, which includes more than emojis.
In summary:
- Some pictographs are not emoji: WHITE SUN WITH RAYS ☼ U+263C xn--94h
- Some characters are both pictographs and emoji: HOT SPRINGS ♨ U+2668 xn--j6h
- Some emoji and not pictographs: MAN SWIMMING 🏊 U+1F3CA [no IDN yet]
Emoji Timeline 📅
On Wikipedia, there is a web page that describes the oldest existing domain names:
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names]
To some, owning one of these domain names is like owning a piece of history, a rare painting, or the numbers-matching collectible car. There is prestige and credibility associated with it.
So I thought it would be interesting to determine when the first emoji domain name was registered, what it was and who registered it. 🕵
My process to determine the oldest emoji was to:
- Start with the list of current emojis (unicode.org).
- Convert each emoji to punycode (punycoder.com).
- Append the .com TLD because “.com is king” and the oldest of all that were registered.
- Run the entire list through EstiBot.com bulk WHOIS check (estibot.com/whois.php).
- Sort domain names by date created in ascending order using Microsoft Excel.
- Look at the top of the list!
The key to this exercise will be in seeing which pictographs registered in the early 2000s (because, remember, there weren’t any emojis back then) in the .com TLD are emojis today.
And drumroll please… 😯
Oh, I already told you above. 😜
Three pictograph domain names were registered on April 19, 2001, that later became full-fledged emoji domain names: the hot springs ♨️ in both .com and .net and the peace symbol ☮ in .com.
[Source: Punycoder.com]
According to DomainIQ, xn--j6h.com and xn--j6h.net are the oldest with a surprisingly identical 2001-04-19T04:00:00Z registration date, while xn--v4h.com is a close runner-up with its 2001-04-19T18:13:06.0Z registration date. (Evidently, peace comes 12 hours, 13 minutes and 6 seconds after getting into a hot spring.)
[Source: DomainIQ.com WHOIS lookup]
Emoji Popularity 🙌
Even though all emoji are created equal, not all emoji have the same popularity.
[Source: emojitracker.com]
Emojitracker.com shows the realtime emoji use on Twitter. The top two emojis include laughing so hard I’m crying 😂 and red heart ❤️.
See, laughter and love conquer all!
In September 2010 an emoji aficionado named Fred Benenson self-published the first entirely emoji translated classic novel Moby Dick, entitling it – of course – Emoji Dick.
In early 2015, a fun billboard campaign from Coca-Cola Puerto Rico targeted younger consumers who readily use emojis on mobile phones by promoting the smiling face emoji as a domain name.
The .ws? Although Western Samoa would beg to differ, Coke said it was meant to convey “we smile.”
Plenty of other well-known companies own and are using emoji domains because they give your voice a snappy attitude:
| Company | Emoji Domain | IDN |
|---|---|---|
| AngelList | ✌️.com | xn--7bi.com |
| Budweiser | 🍺🍺🍺.ws | xn--xj8haa.ws |
| Budweiser | ❤️🍺.ws | xn--qei8618m.ws |
| England & Wales Cricket Board | 🏏.ws | xn--dm8h.ws |
| Honda | 🚘.ws | xn--q68h.ws |
| MAC Cosmetics | 💄.ws | xn--jr8h.ws |
| Powerlink Charging Systems | 🚘🔌.ws | xn--fv8hxy.ws |
| Ray-Ban | 🕶.ws | xn--gy8h.ws |
| Sony Pictures | 😊🎬.ws | xn--dl8h11b.ws |
| Vivino Wine App | 🍷.ws | xn--uj8h.ws |
Oxford Dictionaries named 😂 (Face With Tears of Joy aka Laughing So Hard I’m Crying) its 2015 Word of the Year.
In May 2016, late night host Stephen Cobert discussed emojis:
The first international emoji conference, Emojicon, was held in San Francisco, California on November 4, 2016. Dubbed as a three-day “celebration of all things emoji” it was sponsored by heavyweights GE, Adobe and Baidu among others.
If conferences aren’t your thing but you prefer to wear your emojis — it’s been said that “emojis are the new black.”
Even an emoji movie is planned! “The Emoji Movie,” an animated adventure comedy, is due out in the summer of 2017 starring Sir Patrick Stewart of “Star Trek” and “X-Men” fame. Yes, he plays the voice of poop. 💩
Buying an Emoji Domain Name 💸
While all single character emoji domain names have already been registered (although, sometimes, people let their domains expire), you can still register multiple-character emoji domain names.
Although many top-level domain names used to allow emoji domain names, today .ws is one of the few country code registries that support emoji. (Freenom.com offers .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, and .gq top-level domains, and .to supports emoji as well.) And .ws is considered the “.com” of the ccTLDs that support emoji domain names.
If you want to buy 10 thumbs up in the .ws top-level domain, let’s say, here’s what you do:
- Visit getemoji.com or iemoji.com.
- Copy and paste your favorite combination of emojis and append the .ws extension (e.g., 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍.ws) into punycoder.com to get the IDN.
- Do a whois lookup at whois.domaintools.com/{Your IDN}.
- If the domain name is registered, you’ll see the whois information:
- If the domain name is available, you’ll see that too:
Or, you could simply visit ❤❤❤.ws to look up availability of .ws domains and immediately register it through their association with GoDaddy.
At the time of publication, I found 10 thumbs up .ws available for $4.99 at GoDaddy, but you can use any registrar that sells .ws domain names.
I also found the front-facing car 🚘 available in .ga, .cf and .gq for free at Freenom:
Why Do I See xn--3s9h.ws and not 🦄.ws?
Each browser developer (Google makes Chrome, Apple makes Safari, etc.) makes their own decisions. On Safari (both Mac and iPhone), I see the emoji domain name 🦄.ws. All other browsers display the IDN (xn--3s9h.ws).
Of course, just like with any other domain name, if it’s already registered you can do a WHOIS lookup, contact the registrant, and offer to buy their domain name.
And, for the TLDs that do accept emojis, you can mix letters and emoji characters. i❤.ws, for example, is xn--i-7iq.ws, and it resolves.
How Much Are Emoji Domain Names Worth? 💰
Just like with other domain names, it depends on the length, popularity, age and other valuation metrics. And, of course, how badly you want it. 🤑
I recently contacted a few single character emoji domains in the .ws top-level domain – really popular emojis – and I either didn’t get any response back to my purchase inquiry, or in one case I was told that it would need to be around $18,000 (but even then he wasn’t sure he wanted to sell it).
Other domain name sales data I’ve collected:
| Date | Domain | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2017 | ☎.to (xn--y3h.to) | Sold for $1,500 | Private Sale1 brokered by Claim.club |
| 23 July 2017 | 😗.ws (xn--128h.ws) | Sold for $698 | GoDaddy |
| 22 July 2017 | 👶.ws (xn--4q8h.ws) | Sold for $1,275 | GoDaddy |
| 11 July 2017 | 🐎.ws (xn--5n8h.ws) | Sold for $939 | GoDaddy |
| 11 July 2017 | 🗽.ws (xn--b28h.ws) | Sold for $710 | GoDaddy |
| 4 July 2017 | 🗳.ws (xn--018h.ws) | Sold for $610 | GoDaddy |
| 28 June 2017 | ♻.net (xn--26h.net) | Sold for $1,117 | Sedo |
| 27 June 2017 | 💻.ws (xn--3s8h.ws) | Sold for $900 | Flippa1 |
| 21 June 2017 | 🌮.ws (xn--rh8h.ws) | Sold for $926 | Flippa |
| 25 May 2017 | ☮️.com (xn--v4h.com) | Sold for €3,400 | Sedo |
| 25 May 2017 | .ws (xn--nq9h.ws) |
Sold for $1,250 | Private Sale1 |
| 5 May 2017 |  .ws (xn--bs9h.ws) |
Sold for $3,000 | Private Sale1 |
| 11 Apr 2017 |  .ws (xn--3r9h.ws) |
Sold for $3,000 | Private Sale1 |
| 27 Mar 2017 | 💎.ws (xn--tr8h.ws) | Sold for $2,000 | Private Sale1 |
| 31 Dec 2016 | ☁️.com (xn--l3h.com) | Sold for $13,600 | Sold at Flippa |
| 15 Dec 2016 | 🦋.ws (xn--bt9h.ws) | Sold for $804 | Private Sale |
1 Verified by DNAcademy.com.
Staying Up-to-date with Emoji 🆕
Emoji Wrap summarizes the world of emoji in a monthly newsletter.
You can find emoji news at Emojipedia.
And Jon Roig’s emoji Twitter account is recommended for latest news.
The Future of Emoji 🔮
Will emoji continue in their meteoric rise as a language, back from the dead?
Is everything old, new again?
Time will tell. Until then, ☮.
Acknowledgments 🙏
Thanks to Matan Israeli for igniting my interest in emoji domain names at NamesCon 2017 and agreeing to sell me a few like 🦄.ws, 🤙.ws and 
.ws. Thanks to Luc Lezon at Intelium for support gathering data so I could perform my historical analysis. Thanks to Matan and Jon Roig for sharing their insights on DomainSherpa.com/emoji-domain-names. And thanks to Shane Cultra for peer reviewing this paper. Finally, I couldn’t have done this without the love and support (and copyediting expertise) of my beautiful wife, Erin.
Comments 55
Whaaaa????? How am I just finding out about this now???
THANK YOU!
~Omar
Author
I was there just a few months ago. You’re not alone. 🙂
I can’t seem to find a place to register emojis in any sld much less a .com. Where can you do that?
Author
Hi Orlando,
Check out the guide again. In it I explain why you cannot register emoji domain names in .com.
You can only register them in some ccTLDs, like .ws.
Give it another read and you should be off in the right direction.
Best,
Michael
That’s a lot of valuable info, Michael.
Thanks!
Now, you’re the emoji authority among the domainers!
And… my domain name PunyRegistry.com suddenly becomes so attractive…
Author
I’m not sure if your domain name will become more valuable, but I am sure am glad you found benefit from the guide. ðŸ‘
I own the following domains:
🎰🇨🇳.ws (xn--g77hwa74k.ws)
and
🇨🇳🎰.ws (xn--g77hwa94k.ws)
🙂
Author
Gambling is a big industry…one large enough to support a double character emoji. Good luck! ☘ï¸
Hi,
How or where do you get these Emoji DN code from..?
well said and well structured, and fun. and nice link with the popularity tracker, i found out one of my single characters was a #6.
tip for your readers, there are one charcters, and there are what i call constructed one characters, meaning student + girl is sometime one picture, sometimes two.
thank Mike for the read.
🤙 🤙.🤙🤙
hang loose
Page
Author
Thanks, Page.
You, my man, are always amazing me. I have no idea how you hand regged that domain. Well done!
Thanks for putting this together Mike. I own 2 IDN’s and I didn’t know what to do with them. After reading this, I think I’ll hang on to them for a while. 🙂
Author
I hope your IDNs are emoji domains! 🤜
I own…
💰ðŸ€ðŸº.ws (xn--xj8hler1a.ws)
âš½ðŸ‘.ws (xn--y8h2299n.ws)
Author
I’m not sure what the first one means (sack of money, basketball, beer) — but I would enjoy all three. 🤣
Soccer thumbs-up is a way of life for so many people!
Yeh, Today I am happy after reading this article as I have also invested some of my hard money in this non english character domains… I own some below listed domains.
ʜɪ.net (xn--9na3h.net)
ɪɴ.com (xn--9nau.com)
Author
Not emoji domain names, clearly, but I wish you luck with these IDNs. 🤛
Hi, nice article but please note it’s the ‘pacifism’ symbol, not ‘peace’. It’s an important distinction for those who take geopolitics seriously.
Author
Thanks for that information, Garry. I’m always looking to correct my content and have it be as accurate as possible.
Can you provide a reference for the symbol being “pacifism” and not “peace”?
At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism, I read “A peace sign, which is widely associated with pacifism” just below the symbol.
Thanks in advance.
What a well written and informative insight into thew whole Emojis thing. I banked on these becoming popular after doing some research and invested in a small portfolio of 130 mostly 2 Emojis domains to raise funds for a project to support the young and vulnerable get involved, get active and get back on track.
Author
Good luck with your project, Garry. (If anyone is interested then click Garry’s name to see his website.)
Fantastic guide! Answered every question I had. 🙂 🤜 ðŸ‘
Author
Thanks, Trev. ðŸ‘
Interesting article, Michael.
I don’t expect any big payoff from from owning this, but I work in the SEO industry and it made me laugh so I got it. The ultimate SEO cliche stock imagery domain:
🔎🚀.ws
SEARCH ROCKET! haha.
(I also got this one sometime last year b/c I’m a weather nerd: 🌦.ws )
Author
Thanks, Sean.
That would be a cool company name (Search Rocket), and if you owned the .com as your primary domain name owning the 🔎🚀.ws domain would be fun on cards or in marketing material.
Hey there Mike I own ✹.com and ☫.com 😉
Thanks for your post , i thought they weren’t much of a great investment until now 😊
Author
I don’t think those characters are emojis.
One of the points I wanted to get across was that there is a difference between pictographs (what I think you own) and emoji domain names (what you can access from your mobile phone’s emoji keyboard).
I, too, own a pictograph symbol, but I don’t believe they have much value nor will they increase in value like 🚀.ws or â¤ï¸.ws.
Just wanted to clarify. Thanks for reading.
Hey there Mike,
I like to think ✹.com and ☫.com etc as the upcoming emojis .If you look at the iPhone emoji list you’ll notice they have a 5-pointed star(â), a 6-Pointed star (🔯), and an 8-pointed star(✴ï¸). The symbol ✹ is a 12-Pointed star in its pure form. If any company including apple wanted to add a 12-Pointed star emoji then it would translate to the Punny code of the symbol ✹. Take for example the domain xn--l3h.com (â˜.com). It was registered before the iPhone was released. Like you said above Emoji 1.0 was only as thing until August 2015. So the cloud symbol domain existed long before it was an emoji . Likewise if any company decided to add a 12-Pointed star as an emoji then ,when you type it in the browser it will go straight to the punnycode (xn--l3h.com) from all devices. This is likely to happen because emoji lists have been vastly expanding since Emoji 1.0 in August 2015, as you mentioned above since Emoji 1.0 , there has been 5 more updated versions in just 2 years.
If people are interested in buying emoji domains. I recommend buying symbol domains in the .com extension because they are much rarer and are likely become emojis in the future. General people aren’t much aware of the .ws extension let alone emoji.ws.
😊
Author
“If any company including apple wanted to add a 12-Pointed star emoji then it would translate to the Punny [sic] code of the symbol ✹”
Great point. You are clearly thinking ahead of the game. Well done!
If Unicode Consortium adds a 12-pointed star, then your domain will be golden!
I agree, .com emoji domain names would be the least confusing for users — but all the “cool” emoji characters (as evidenced on EmojiTracker.com) are newer and not allowed on .com (for now).
I own :
🔆🔆.ws
🌴😎.ws
You inspired me to develop my new domain http://emojibid.com A bran new platform! You are welcome to ad your domains there 🙂
Best Ted
Ouestion: Can I have the permission to use your blog on my page?
Author
Hi Doru,
All content must stay on DNAcademy.com. You may link to it. Thank you for asking.
Best,
Michael
Wow wow wow!! That’s a well written SUPER informative insight into my field.
although i was one of the first in the world with emojis domains, i have never seen such a good knowledge gathered all together.
so Mike, thanks for writing The BIBLE of Emoji domains. i am sure it will be used by many domainers tons of times.
Author
Thanks, Matan. 🙂
My newest reg emoji domain names:
💖☕💖.ws
☕☕☕.ws
â¤ðŸŽ¥â¤.ws
💖✈.ws
💖🌹💖.ws
Wich do you like the most?
Michael, you inspired me to develop my new domainplatform ! Thank you! http://emojibid.com
A brand new platform! You are welcome to add your domains there 🙂
Best Ted
Thanks i just registered my first IDN.
â˜ï¸surf.ws
xn--surf-ug3b.ws
What does it mean when you see the box(s) instead (example: 🌎.ws or 🌎⚾.ws) of the image(emoji graphic) when converting punycode to text on punycoder.com? For example if enter xn--3s9h.ws for the Unicorn emoji on the punycoder.com site it shows 🦄.ws when translating to text.
Author
If you see it in a browser or OS, it means the browser or OS you’re using hasn’t included the emoji character yet.
If you’re asking specifically about punycoder.com, you’ll have to ask them as I don’t know how their coding works.
Michael, What is the date that general public will be able to register the new emoji’s (ie: zombie, pie, vampire, brain, etc…)? Thanks in advance!
As always you really do research the topic and put it across in such an easy to understand way.
Many thanks!
I did manage to get a few of these.
I own :
💹.ws
ðŸŠðŸ».ws
ðŸŒðŸ“°.ws
👓🕶.ws
📱💻.ws
Hopefully we all see some good sales in the near future. ðŸ‘
What about other ld. then .ws
one character dn:
💡.ml
💡.cf
🎅.cf
ðŸ·.cf
ðŸ•.tk
ðŸ¬.cf
ðŸ†.cf
⛳.cf
⛳.ml
⛳.tk
Do you see any value for the future?
Thank you,
Doru
http://www.EmojiBID,com
Hi DN Academy
A great & informative article on emoji!
During the last few years we have definitely seen a rapid change in emoji usage & uptake in emoji domain name registrations as a result- thanks in part to apples inclusion of the emoji keyboard on mobile phones.
It’s great that companies are starting to purchase & adopt emoji as domain names alongside their .com websites & productively used in marketing campaigns!
Erwin Groen 😃
The three listed which were first registered in 2001 are now worth US$50000! (that is according to sedo)
Author
Hi JS,
That’s the buy-it-now, or asking, price. It’s not necessarily the true market value.
For example, I can ask $500,000 for my 1976 Volkswagen Beetle. It doesn’t mean that $500,000 is the value.
If they sell for $500,000, then that’s a true test of the value (worth).
Hope that clarifies what you saw at Sedo.
Best,
Michael
Got ↗ï¸.ws
My email address is c@↗ï¸.ws
This gets rejected when filling out a form – like this one!!!
Author
I bet if you translated it into IDN, it would work.
Did you try filling out the form as c@xn--b6g.ws?
Emoji domain names are getting there, one step at a time. It requires some patience. �
I’ve been online since the 90s and I must say it’s been awhile since I’ve been so excited about domain names. What exciting times! A picture is worth a thousand words, and how best to display that to everyone about one’s brand? We just acquired ☮.com and it reflects what we do perfectly. Thank you for educating me and all of us about emoji domain names, Michael.
Sincerely, Thomas
Hi Mike
I’ve got âï¸âï¸âï¸âï¸âï¸.ws. I think of use in review and rating campaigns or site like Trip Advisor.
Thank you for all the gyan thru DN & Sherpa.
Oswin
I like your domain name! I give you five stars!
I’d like to point out that i registered xn--g5h.com (♂ï¸.com) a full 13 minutes before the other ones 🙂 And it is part of Emoji 4.0.
once again great content Mike, its been a month and this is stll agreat summary to reread. page howe
One thing that still baffles me is the life cycle/drop cycle of an emoji domain.
To date I have monitored two names that did not drop, instead picked up by others..
To date, there’s much hype in emoji domains. More businesses are seeing the value & potential in owning emoji names and more reported sales are occurring…
Erwin
http://www.😃.ws
http://xn--h28h.ws
http://www.Emo.to (😺.to) was launched on world emoji day, it already converted ProductHunt.com, BetaList.com and several other companies to adopt a .to emoji.
I don’t understand one thing Mike, you said the first three emojis were registered in 2001, but then in another section you said that prior to 2010 only ASCII could be registered. How were the domains registered before, actually registered?
Great report
Author
Thanks, Jonny.
Certain ASCII characters became emojis. For example, : ) became 😀.