Getting Your Own Emoji Domain

The topic of Emoji domains has been back in the news recently, with Coca-Cola promoting their Emoticoke campaign, and you may be wondering how you can get hold of one for yourself. There are a few guides out there which outline how to register an Emoji domain, however they’re all a few years old and the methods they used no longer work. Having spent quite a while figuring out how to register my own emoji domain I thought I’d put together a guide to help you avoid some of the issues I encountered and register your own Emoji domain.

This article, unsurprisingly, features quite a few Emojis which may not display correctly in all browsers (I’m looking at you, Chrome). If you experience issues try viewing in Firefox, Safari, pretty much any mobile browser, or you can download something like the Emojify Chrome Extension.

Background

The idea of having an Emoji domain name is not a new one. The first Emoji domain was registered by Panic back in 2011 when they purchased 💩.la.

If you click through to the link above you’ll see that there’s still not much there, however you will notice that the domain in your address bar likely no longer shows 💩.la, but…