ICANN, the Internet's primary oversight agency, has voted to allow new top-level domains (TLDs). This could mean a massive expansion beyond the original .com, .net, and .org TLDs, and country specific TLDs like .co.uk, .ca, .pl, and .de, and that raises a timely question - should one of those new TLDs be .wiki?
Building Greater Awareness
It could build greater awareness of wikis, and their uses beyond Wikipedia, especially in an organizational context. There's a general misconception that Wikipedia is what a wiki is, and we need to do a better job educating people about the wide range of wiki uses, such as: project management, building documents, managing meeting agendas, minutes, and action items, etc.
Is it Necessary?
But, is it really necessary to identify a site as a wiki? As wikis become embedded into the fabric of more and more websites, it seems reasonable to ask whether those sites would specifically call out the presence of a wiki using a .wiki address. Also, it would likely be difficult to ensure that a site using the .wiki TLD really is a wiki, but this isn't a showstopper by any means.
So should there be a .wiki TLD? What do you think? Would you use .wiki? Let's get a debate going in the comments!
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