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. 😱

It’s Friday and I’m bringing more good news after bringing you yesterday’s release of new .WS emoji domains.

While attempting to cross-check the newly released Unicode Emoji v11 against both .WS and .TO registries, I discovered that Register.to was offering a 3-Day Only discount off their premium domain listings.

It’s certainly a good Thursday and making for a GREAT Friday should you be one of the many emoji domain investors that now own one or more of the new .WS emoji domains.

Early today, I reported that the .WS registry would be releasing the long-awaited .WS emoji domains for the newly released Unicode Emoji v11.

🎉  It’s a big day in the world of emoji and emoji domains! 🎉 Unicode Emoji has released the latest emoji in version 11. 🎉

Later today .WS is making emoji domains available for the most recent emoji version 11. But you’ll have to act fast to stake and make your claim for the version 11 emoji domains.

Single emoji domains, no matter the extension, are quite the hot commodity.  This round brings roughly 161 new possible single emoji domains to be registered and one place to register.