I am honored and privileged to interview the fabulous one and only Tess Diaz, Business Development Coordinator at Media Options, in today’s podcast.

Things have been rather quiet for expiring emoji domain auctions recently.

In fact, I struggled to remember the last emoji domain auction fetching a bid and closing. 🤔

However, yesterday both 💫.ws and 🌕.ws closed at $110 and $22 respectively (awaiting payment from bidder and transfer to account in 7 days).

In other news, almost 7K .WS emoji domains have expired over the last 30-40 days.

It appears GoDaddy’s expiring .WS emoji domain auctions are picking up steam once more with yet another wave — at least over the 7 days. 🌊

Not much has changed with the domain name search experience since the early days of the internet.

The process in and of itself is timeless in general. I mean, a person either has a dream or idea about launching a website of some sort, and they visit a domain registrar of their choice to verify domain availability.

If the .com domain is taken (which is highly likely these days), then searchers likely append or prepend words or letters, in some cases, they add hyphens or dashes or get cute with adding or removing an assortment of letters to create a brandable domain.

Nevertheless, searchers spend a lot of time searching and hoping their domain of choice is available while using a less-than-stellar domain name search user experience.

While attending NamesCon 2018, I attended a Tools Talk (Why Searching For A Domain Name Sucks) given by Tony Kim, Chief Marketing Officer of Hexonet, that outlined Hexonet’s three-pronged strategy for transforming the future of the domain name search experience.

It’s been a while since I shared a domain sale experience. The reason I’m highlighting today’s story is based on my latest experience selling a domain to a buyer that’s likely a Chinese domain investor.

How do I know that the domain buyer is a Chinese domain investor? I don’t know with great certainty, but it’s highly likely based on what I’m about to share with you.

I’m glad to report a few months into 2018 that I’ve been blessed with an influx of favorable domain inquiries. In fact, most of my sales started last November.

However, this specific domain request arrived a few weeks ago and intrigued me because of the following reasons:

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, you’re bound to visit several of your favorite websites and blogs in a given week to consume the latest and greatest news.

And if you are 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 podcasts.

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