Berlin19 Mar 2014 21:15
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.
According to InterNetX a German based registrar, 20,000 registration were done in the 1st hour of 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