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Berlin to get own domain name extension

Its something many have been waiting for, for quite some time; domain name extension just for their town or city. It appears that Berlin, the German capital has beaten all other world capitals to it. In 4 days time (18th of March) Berlin will be the first city in the world to have its own dedicated domain name extension, .berlin

Companies based in Berlin or Berliners with craving for their own personal domain name will be able to register their desire name with the ending .berlin , for example temi.berlin .

The .berlin domain suffix, a generic top-level domain (gTLD) was created under an agreement between Berlin’s local government and ICANN. A .berlin suffix will cost between 30-60 euros a year to maintain. The extension is expected to raise about 500,000 euros a year.

Other cities are not far behind Berlin in the launch of their own gTLD. Cities already in the queue includes London, Paris, New York, Johannesburg, Nagoya ( I wonder why Tokyo is not keen) and Vienna.

The londong gTLD will become available in April. I wonder what the take up of .london domain extension will be, give that Nominet is making the .uk space available soon.