.wiki Domain
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What is a .wiki domain?
The .wiki domain is designed for collaborative knowledge sharing and documentation. It's the ideal address for knowledge bases, internal documentation portals, and open reference projects.
Who should register .wiki?
Knowledge base creators, documentation teams, community wiki projects, and open-source organisations.
Why choose .wiki?
- Universally associated with knowledge
- Perfect for documentation sites
- Encourages collaborative content
- Clear and intuitive meaning
Who runs .wiki, and since when
Registry data from the .wiki delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registry operator
- Registry Services, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 6 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no requirement to run wiki software
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £25.49 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .wiki domain does not get from Wikipedia
The registry markets this one on an association it cannot grant. GoDaddy Registry's own product page says a .wiki address "associates your site with wiki technology and Wikipedia.org". Wikipedia belongs to the Wikimedia Foundation, whose trademark policy is direct about domains: you need permission to register or use a domain name containing a Wikimedia mark, and you should not register anything that looks or sounds similar to one. The association is atmospheric. What you buy is an address, not a relationship.
Put that aside and the extension is quietly useful, because the word describes a format rather than a subject. A wiki is a page that people with access can edit, which is a shape of website rather than a topic. Product documentation, an internal handbook, a game or fandom reference, a club knowledge base, an open glossary: every one of those is a wiki whatever it covers, and none of them is well served by a .com that says nothing.
Nothing obliges you to run wiki software, and nothing checks. There is no eligibility rule and no Category 1 public interest commitment in the ICANN agreement for .wiki. IANA records the sponsoring organisation as Registry Services, LLC, the GoDaddy Registry entity in Tempe, Arizona, and the extension has been in the root zone since February 2014.
Our steer: strong as a documentation or reference address running alongside a main site. Weak as the only address a business owns, because the word promises something editable and most businesses do not want to promise that.
Is .wiki the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.wiki works well if
- You are publishing documentation, a handbook or a reference that people will link to and quote from, and you want the address to say what shape the site is.
- A community edits the content rather than just you, and the extension sets that expectation before anyone reads a page.
- The subject is a game, a fandom, a hobby or a piece of software, where readers already expect a wiki and go looking for one.
- You want a clean second address for docs so the main site keeps its own structure and the two are not competing for the same search terms.
Look elsewhere if
- You expect it to borrow standing from Wikipedia. It does not, and Wikimedia's trademark policy specifically warns against domains that resemble its marks.
- It will be the only address your business owns. Wiki implies a page anyone can edit, which is the wrong promise for a shop or a professional practice.
- Your traffic comes from UK local search. A .co.uk costs well under half as much a year and carries a geographic signal .wiki has no way to give you.
Documenting a UK business rather than building a community reference? Put the docs in a subfolder on the .co.uk and keep one bill. See .co.uk pricing.
.wiki vs .info: which should you register?
Both are reference extensions and both are read by ordinary visitors as a promise that the page will tell them something. What separates them is who does the writing.
.info has been in the root zone since 2001 and is generic to the point of being invisible, which is a virtue for a plain reference site and a wasted opportunity for anything with character. .wiki is newer and narrower, and it says something specific: this is a living reference, maintained by more than one person, expected to change.
Pick .info for a single-author guide, a directory or a static reference that will not move much. Pick .wiki when collaboration is the point and you want the address to advertise it before anyone clicks.
| .wiki | .info | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads as | A living reference many people edit | A page that explains something |
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 2001 |
| Registry | Registry Services, LLC (GoDaddy Registry) | Identity Digital |
| Eligibility test | None | None |
| Annual cost | Roughly two and a half times a .co.uk | Roughly twice a .co.uk |
.wiki domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .wiki domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Nothing in the ICANN registry agreement or in the registry's published material requires MediaWiki, DokuWiki or any other platform, and nothing checks what you install. Plenty of .wiki sites are ordinary documentation sites built on a static site generator or a content management system. The word sets a reader expectation about how the content behaves rather than a technical condition on how you build it.
No, despite the registry's marketing language about associating your site with Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia is a Wikimedia Foundation trademark, and Wikimedia's trademark policy states that you need permission to register or use a domain name containing one of its marks and warns against registering names that look or sound similar. Buying a .wiki gives you no affiliation, no permission and no protection. If your name resembles a Wikimedia mark, that is a problem the extension makes worse rather than better.
It is neutral, like every generic extension. Google's documentation says any top-level domain that is not on ICANN's country-code list is treated as generic, so .wiki carries no geographic signal and no ranking advantage or penalty. What actually helps a reference site is the thing wikis are good at anyway: depth, internal linking and pages that stay current. If your audience is British and local, a .co.uk gives you a UK signal that .wiki cannot.
Yes, and that is arguably what it is best at. A handbook, a runbook or an onboarding guide sitting on handbook.wiki reads clearly to staff and needs no explanation. Put it behind authentication if the content is not public, and keep the DNS with the same provider as the rest of your estate so a renewal lapse cannot take out an internal tool nobody was watching. Set the domain to auto-renew and put a real mailbox on the contact record.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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