From Ali Zandi to Josh E to Rick Schwartz, it’s always interesting and entertaining to watch industry vets do their thing — especially when the topic is hand-registering domains.

It’s been almost a year since Ali Zandi went on a spree hand registering nearly 4,600 .com domains via a FastHost.com promotion.

And ole’ Josh from DSAD.com is a regular hand-reg domain type of guy that’s always down for a bulk hand-reg and quick-flip domain challenge.

As for Rick Schwartz (Domain King), he was interviewed nearly 4 years ago via DomainSherpa.com about his thought process when hand-regging domains.

I distinctly remember this DomainSherpa interview — born from a DomainSherpa Challenge requesting Sherpas put their domain prowess on display hand-regging undervalued domains.

At the time, I didn’t know what to make of Rick’s hand-regging domains for nearly 8 hours spread across 2-3 days.

I wanted to deliver this post at the beginning of the week, but it’s better late than never, I guess. 

It’s been an interesting week over at GoDaddy for expired domain auctions.

There has been an uptick of expiring domain auctions containing the word “blockchain”.

Talk about unfortunate or impeccable timing for whoever has allowed such domains to expire!

Then again, it could be a ploy to simply gauge domain interest and value only to have the owner retain ownership by renewing late in the expiry process. 

Only time will tell… but what we do know is…

Here lately, my inbox has been inundated with emails referencing wanting to send me, rather my company, business if I would click a link and join Alignable.com.

As I would soon learn, Alignable.com is a small business networking website providing a path to customer referrals, recommendations, and local business insights.

I ignored the first couple of emails until I began receiving the same emails from well-known domainers.

Today’s NameJet emoji domain auction results give the appearance that interest is waning for emoji domains.

Of course, this loosely held opinion is based on NameJet finishing last year quite strong with a number of .WS emoji domain auctions closing with 4-figure amounts.

So, how in the world do NameJet emoji domain auctions go from 4-figure amounts to barely meeting or not meeting 3-figure reserves? 🤔