Going once!–This week Las Vegas played host to NamesCon, the largest and arguably most influential annual conference for domain name investors. A major highlight of the much-anticipated conference was Right of the Dot’s live domain name auction, which included a mix of legacy and new TLDs. Top Level Design did not hold back, auctioning off valuable names such as Food.wiki, Casino.wiki, Celebrity.wiki, Red.ink, and Wholesale.ink.
.ink & .wiki gear up for their first live auction
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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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.