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.ink & .wiki gear up for their first live auction

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Top Level Design, the registry behind .wiki and .ink domain names, is anxiously gearing up for its first ever live auction, which will take place January 13th at 4:30p.m. at NamesCon in Las Vegas.

The company is expecting their .ink and .wiki names to perform well at auction given the successes of these extensions since their launches last year.

Individual .ink domains have already been selling in the $10,000 – $20,000 range in private sales since the TLD’s June 2014 launch. The .ink domain is seeing high-profile tattoo industry publications Rebel Ink, Urban Ink, and Skin&Ink all making the switch, as well as adoption from the hit TV phenomenon Sons of Anarchy, which launched a tattoo focused mini-site.

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Wikimedia’s Yana Welinder Makes Statement in Support of Releasing Two-Character Domains

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The following is a statement from The Wikimedia Foundation’s Yana Welinder, which was read at the public forum at ICANN51 in Los Angeles in an effort to expedite the release of 2-character .wiki names. Wikimedia plans to use the names as URL shorteners for Wikipedia.

A Wiki Evangelist at Wikimania

Top Level Design staff *love* Wikipedia and wiki culture, which explains why we applied for the .wiki gTLD in the first place! Recently, more than 2,000 wiki enthusiasts gathered in London for the tenth annual conference for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wikimania features presentations and discussions related to wikis, open-source software and technology, and free knowledge. Today’s blog post features Jason Moore, a longtime Wikipedia contributor, to share a bit about his experience at the conference.

New .ink & .wiki IDNs Available

ICANN has approved .ink and .wiki’s requests for additional International Domain Name (IDN) capability!

IDNs allow registrants to use non-ACSII characters in their domain names, making the naming process more intuitive and convenient for non-English speakers. In this way, IDNs are a step toward further Internet globalization and accessibility.

Top Level Design is excited to offer domain names in languages such as Arabic, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Lao, and Hebrew in both our .wiki and .ink TLDs! Registrants will also be able to register names using Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin scripts.