Last year, it was announced that people could register Emoji domain names. Name.com (and others) wrote about how to register these domain names, although I have no idea how many Emoji domain names have been registered. There was also a fair amount of mainstream press that covered this news, especially when it came to Coca Cola’s usage of an Emoji domain name (a .WS domain name).

Earlier this week, GoDaddy launched a search engine to find and register available .WS Emoji domain names:  â¤â¤â¤.ws. Based off my recollection alone, there seems to be much more news this time, presumably because GoDaddy is  making it easier for people to find and register Emoji .WS domain names.

I am curious if you would ever consider registering an Emoji domain name if they were available in any extension. Personally, I am not much of an Emoji user. I add a  smiley face here and there in text messages, but that’s about it. I don’t think I would be a user, although if they were available in all extensions and there was a market for emoji url, I would probably invest.

Vote in the poll below and share your thoughts in the comment section:

I don’t know about you, but I seem to get a ton of emails that have “GoDaddy,” “Go-Daddy,” “Godaddy” or something very similar in the From field. The actual email addresses underlying the From field are not @godaddy.com, but the sender tries to make them appear to be from GoDaddy.

Here’s a screenshot of my Gmail spam folder that was cleared out with the exception of this spammy looking email:

I occasionally receive text messages with various offers that seem to want me to believe they are from GoDaddy or affiliated with the company.  After I received a text message that mentioned GoDaddy this past week, I reached out to GoDaddy’s Nick Fuller to ask if it was from GoDaddy. As I suspected, the message was not sent by GoDaddy.

Here’s the content of a text message I received:

“Congrats! You are Selected for 70% Off Godaddy Business Video Deal Ending Today! Click Here (redacted Bitly link) Now to Activate this Deal & Boost your Sales by 300%.

I didn’t click the link,

If you missed yesterday’s Hangout  discussing GoDaddy’s Domain Buy Service, I have embedded the video below. The video is 40 minutes long, and it’s worth a watch if you are considering using GoDaddy’s buy service to acquire a domain name or if you have been approached by a broker about selling one of your domain names.

If you have any questions for GoDaddy representatives, you are welcome to post them in the comment section here or on the YouTube video page. If you have any recommendations for a future GoDaddy Hangout, I am sure they would appreciate hearing them.