The first city new gTLD launched yesterday and .Berlin did over 31,000 registrations.
.Berlin first day total was 31,956 making it immediately the 2nd most popular new gTLD only to .Guru which has around 44,500 registrations.
By contrast .Guru only did 9,500 registrations on its first day of general availability.
.Berlin, as we have told you was one of the groups that really pushed ICANN to open up the domain name space which has became the new gTLD program.
A .Berlin domain registration retail cost is around $60 a year depending on the registrar you use, assuming a $50 wholesale cost the registry .Berlin registry took in over $1.5 million in its first day, which is not bad for the $185K investment.
Unlike some cities, .Berlin has no residence requirements or nexus requirements to the city so its available to be registered to anyone in the world
We always expected that the city new gTLD’s would be the most registered new gTLD.
There are 50 cities that applied for their own domain name extension although only a few are located in the United States.
In the US the city Geo domains are limited to .NYC, .Boston, .Vegas and .Miami
Other major cities around the world that have applied for their own new gTLD include .London, .Paris, .Tokyo., Rome and .Vienna.
