It’s Saint Patrick’s Day, and I’m sharing with you this upcoming week’s expiring emoji domain auctions! ☘

The last month or so has brought a large tsunami of emoji domains expiring.

And although the Discount Cost Club likely provides the most competitively-price renewal  fee when it comes to emoji domain, emoji domain owners have surprisingly passed on renewing approximately 6-7 thousand emoji domains.

Nevertheless, this week brings a batch of 123 emoji domain auctions set to expire, including 39 country flag emoji.

Can country flag emoji domains be the lucky charm to jumpstart emoji domain sales? 🤔

It’s been a little over a month since I attended and shared my NamesCon experience as a first-time attendee.

One of the most talked about presentations from day three of NamesCon was Paul E. Nicks’, GM of GoDaddy, keynote: Lessons Learned from Operating the Most Valuable Portfolio in the World.

But what you might not know or heard about was the very lively breakout session focused on domain appraisals: Mastering Aftermarket Appraisals.

If you’re like me, then you’re bound to visit a number of your favorite websites and blogs in a given week to consume the latest and greatest news.

And if not visiting your favorite websites, then you’re likely trying to keep up with email notifications about the latest blog content, video (Yes, YouTube feeds too!), or podcast.

Today, I’m letting you in on a little secret that should help you simplify and effectively manage of your favorite websites, and their notification of new blogs, video, and podcast content.

It’s the 4th consecutive week that GoDaddy expiring auctions have delivered a tidal wave of expiring emoji domains.

To date, just over 5,000 emoji domains have expired in the last 30 days, including this upcoming week.

In today’s podcast, I go behind the scenes and discuss new top-level domains with one of the best domain broker’s in the industry, Jebidiah Burnett.

After an exciting week of newly released .WS emoji domains and system glitches to go with, expiring auctions for .WS emoji domains are once again heating up via GoDaddy’s Aftermarket.

It’s been an exciting week for emoji domains for the right reasons, and now it appears for the wrong reason based on late Friday afternoon tweets from impacted emoji domain investors.

Early this week I reported that Global Domains International (GDI), the company behind the .WS registry, would publicly release new emoji domains for the most recent Unicode Emoji Version 11 at 1PM CST on March 1st.

Well, March 1st and 1PM CST came and went, leaving nearly 161 .WS single emoji domains registered and scattered amongst many domain investors.  There was much excitement expressed throughout Twitter by emoji domain investors who were able to snag their desired .WS emoji domains.

But the excitement was short lived, coming to a screeching halt last Friday afternoon near the close of business as a few stories began to surface about emoji domains being clawed back due to a .WS system glitch that allowed multiple registrations for the same emoji domains. 😱