Traversing the domain industry to find your place under the sun can be quite challenging, especially when your a newcomer.

There are many casualties and carcasses along the domaining journey to learn from or join. YIKES! 😳

One doesn’t have to blindly throw money down the drain purchasing ill-advised domains.

In fact, you’re likely better off attending a few conferences and touching base with experienced domainers BEFORE  spending a dime on domains.

And speaking of conferences, I recently attended NamesCon 2018. I met with a number of domain investors and industry professionals throughout the conference.

Based on emoji domain activity last month and the final few months of 2017, things are shaping up to be an interesting year in 2018 for emoji domains, especially expiring auctions.

Based on current activity, it appears someone or many person(s) are cutting bait and exiting the emoji domain stage based on my most recent expiring emoji domain findings.

Rarely do I ever have a chance to venture over to NamePros.com and peruse the site for additional content ideas or the latest breaking news.

Between recording, writing content, handling business affairs for my other 2 businesses, and always prioritizing my family and church into the mix, I’m simply busy and productive from sun up to sun down.

This day was no different than any other day until receiving an email tip referencing a NamePros’ post about the liquidation of 3,000+ brandable domains.

Now that the NamesCon dust has settled, I’m eagerly looking forward to attending a few additional conferences in 2018.

Having already registered and made arrangements to attend NameSummit in New York at The Westin, Times Square August 6th through the 7th, I received a Google calendar reminder to make sure I registered for MERGE! 2018.

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.

I’ve got sunshine (☀), on a cloudy day (☁). When it’s cold outside ❄ (Brr, like right now!), I’ve got the month of February …err May.

Although it’s cold and cloudy here in Austin, Texas, things are heating up a bit in the emoji domain space.

I’m back with another weird WordPress fix for likely a problem encountered by many, whether you ever admit to it or not. 😜

At the request of a customer that’s been with us for 10 years and counting now, I’m working on updating and fixing a few aged items relating to their website’s user experience.

Everything was going well until I attempted to upgrade the website to use a more lightweight and intuitive plugin to create a “before and after” slideshow of their project work. 🤨

To complicate things a bit, I unknowingly experimented with a few discontinued WordPress plugins that are no longer supported.

So wish WordPress developers would update their plugins more often with discontinued support messages. 😤  But I digress.

Each time I would install, activate, configure, and implement an image gallery or slideshow plugin for WordPress, I encounter the same error: