A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Ethan Berl (CTO) and Dave Thompson (CRO) about Las Vegas-based company Flye and how it’s pioneering emoji marketing services.

🤔 If you’re thinking the name Flye sounds familiar, then you’re thinking right.  Flye has been featured in recent interviews:

• Connecting Brands and Emoji Domain Owners With Emoji Domain Leasing
• Rising From the Ashes With the Fire Emoji 🔥

Attending NamesCon 2018 afforded me the opportunity to have a in-person conversation to dive deeper into detail with two of the four founding members of Flye: Ethan and Dave.

About this time last month, I was humming along just days into the new year and recovering from the FLU. Yes, it was nasty, and I’m glad to have survived it. But I digress.

As I said, humming along during the work day, I received a Twitter mention notification. Ruh roh, must be trouble, right?

Writing about many popular and unpopular topics related to domains, I sometimes go running for the hills when Twitter mentions starting bombarding my phone or inbox.

Fresh off the heels of NamesCon, I’m sharing and giving you a peek inside one of the largest conferences for the domain industry.

If you missed NamesCon this year, then I encourage you to buy your tickets, and SOON! Don’t wait until the last minute.

Moving along, today I’m sharing with you an interview and conversation I managed to capture while attending NamesCon with .BIBLE Registry.

If you’re new to registering and owning emoji domains, then you’ve likely discovered the scarcity of single emoji domains, especially .WS and .TO emoji domain extensions.

Or perhaps you were one of many lucky persons able to snag a few circa 2014 or 2015 before emoji domain search sites and engines started popping up left and right.

And if not then, then maybe you purchased your favorite emoji domains by way of public auction, expiring auction, or a 3rd-party private sale.

Emoji domains are the current talk of the town. But truth be told, emoji domains somewhat remind me of the dog that barked and chased the car. How so?

Welcome back! I’m at it again bringing you another domains interview.

If you’ve enjoyed previous domains interviews thus far, then you’ll certainly enjoy today’s interview with the owner of the fire emoji (🔥), Preben Aune.

One year out, and another year in! And with a new year, brings a slew of new domain investing opportunities and perspectives to explore.

Over the last 6 months or so, I’ve shared a number of domain interviews from technologists to designers to entrepreneurs to investors to marketplaces and more…

Picking up from where we left off last, one of the latest opportunities to take hold in the domain industry are emoji domains.

Until now, most interviews I’ve covered have highlighted independent investors or traders investing in emoji domains.

If you hang around the domain industry long enough, then you’ll likely discover most domain portfolios often sit priced unrealistically, and collecting more dust than inquiries and sales.

And if researching and drumming up leads, inquiries, and sales for your domain portfolio is not within your wheelhouse, then things aren’t looking up for you, and it’s only a matter of time before you call it quits.

Why you ask? For starters, the glory days of parked domains earning 4 and 5 figures per month have long passed us all by.

And for most domain investors, developing partial or entire domain portfolio is a costly experience nor is development a skill within their wheelhouse.

Then add to this that new domain investors often commit the grave error of obliging the domain buyer’s bug without one thought towards a plan to strategy.

And it isn’t long before a year passes and the domain renewal grinch arrives at the door knocking and expecting prompt payment.

Make no mistake about it! You must identify an option for your domain to generate income to support renewal cost of it and others, and in short order too! But how?