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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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.