.wiki Domain: An Address for Shared Knowledge Bases
The .wiki extension entered the root zone on 6 February 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 7 November 2013 and the contracting party today is Registry Services, LLC. The word has settled into one meaning: pages edited collaboratively. Internal documentation hubs, product and game encyclopaedias, community glossaries and open source project docs all take addresses here.
There is no eligibility test and the application commitments section of the agreement is blank. Holding the name does not oblige you to install wiki software either; what the ending promises is that the content is collectively maintained, and visitors read it that way. On 14 August 2026 the zone held 190,131 registrations. Try roots on the .wiki domain search page.
The value of this ending comes from the visitor expecting a continuously updated source behind it. Fail that expectation and the extension stops helping and starts hurting: a page whose last edit is years old looks staler here than the same text on an ordinary address. The decision rule is simple — choose it when you have a content plan that will keep drawing edits, or at least living release notes. For a one-off brochure page, another ending sends a more honest signal.
.WIKI Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Registry Services, LLC
- Root zone entry 6 February 2014
- Registry agreement 7 November 2013
- Eligibility None; no obligation to run wiki software
- Zone size 190,131 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .wiki domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.wiki Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$32.49 /year -
Transfer
$32.49 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Late Renewal
$7.00
Included With Every .wiki Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.wiki Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .wiki domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .wiki address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .wiki domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $7.00 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .wiki returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.wiki Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.wiki Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .wiki domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.wiki Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .wiki Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, there is no such obligation.
The registry agreement sets no eligibility condition and no rule about which software you run. Use whatever fits: a classic wiki engine, a static site generator or a docs-based help centre. What the ending communicates is not technology but collaborative editing. Visitors arrive with that expectation, so the real rule lands on the content side.
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Yes, particularly when several people keep the documents up to date.
For product docs, internal process guides and support articles, the address alone says what will be found. Using a separate root instead of a subdomain makes it easier to publish documentation independently of the main site and to separate access rules. Check whether your brand name is free here on the .wiki domain search page.
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The zone held 190,131 registrations on 14 August 2026, so it is large but far from saturated.
At that scale common single English words are gone, while brand names, product names and two-part technical terms remain easy to find. A practical method: try your product name first, then combine it with the subject if the answer comes back taken. To compare several candidates at once, use bulk domain search.
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The extension itself is not a ranking factor; content and technical health decide the outcome.
Wiki-style sites do have a structural advantage: dense internal linking, orderly heading hierarchies and text that naturally answers long-tail queries. The thing to watch is near-empty duplicate pages, which burn crawl budget without earning anything. A smaller set of complete pages performs better than a large pile of stubs.
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The WHOIS server carrying the extension's own name runs on port 43 and answers queries.
A check on 14 August 2026 returned the registration date, the status codes and the sponsoring registrar. When a name shows as taken, those status codes tell you when the term ends and whether it has entered the redemption stage. Run the lookup from our whois search page.
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