.Berlin

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Top-level domain .berlin
introduction February 2014
category New top-level domain (New gTLD)
Registry dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG
Award unlimited for Berliners
number 0.05 million

.berlin is a new top-level domain for Internet addresses (domains) for companies, organizations and private individuals with reference to the city of Berlin, similar to the .de domain for Internet addresses with reference to Germany. The administration of the domain is registered through dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG , a company with about 90, mostly Berliners shareholders.

As of December 31, 2017, 54,827 domains were registered, around half of which are parked .

history

The idea for the .berlin top-level domain was born in 1999, around a year after ICANN was founded .

On June 21, 2005, Dirk Krischenowski and Alexander Schubert from Berlin founded dotBERLIN GmbH & Co KG with the aim of getting the .berlin top-level domain approved by the Internet administration organization ICANN.

On March 18, 2014, the top-level domain .berlin opened to the public as the first city top-level domain.

According to the former governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit , "[the top-level domain .BERLIN] offers the opportunity to digitally highlight Berlin as the center of life or as a location for business activities". In addition, the Senate reserved tens of thousands of Berlin domains, including the names of streets and public institutions.

The managing director of dotBERLIN was appointed to the Names & Numbers Steering Committee of the eco - Association of the Internet Industry in May 2017 .

In December 2017, the Berlin Senate was asked to report on the development of dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG by December 31, 2018.

Since May 29, 2018, dotBERLIN has been offering e-mail addresses under various .berlin domains at mail.berlin.

properties

A .berlin domain name can be between one and 63 characters long. The domain name may only consist of the letters a to z, the digits 0 to 9 and hyphens, whereby the name may neither begin nor end with a hyphen. For internationalized domain names (IDN), the maximum length is defined by RFCs 5890 and 5891.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dot.berlin
  2. ↑ a b new gTLD Statistics: .berlin In: ntldstats.com , accessed on January 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ Katja Scherer: How a Berlin company fought for the .berlin domain extension In: gruenderszene.de:, January 13, 2016, accessed on September 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ Monika Ermert: dotBerlin will .berlin In: heise.de , July 15, 2005, accessed on September 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kleinwächter: Neuland unterm Pflug In: heise.de/telepolis , July 22, 2005, accessed on September 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Stefan Krempl: Plea for Top Level Domain .berlin in the Berlin House of Representatives (Update) In: heise.de , June 6, 2007, accessed on September 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Corinna Visser: .berlin is online In: tagesspiegel.de , March 18, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ Tina Gerstung: Jippie - Berlin is the first in the world! In: qiez.de , March 18, 2014, accessed September 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ Berlin goes online with its own city domain . Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 2014, accessed on August 9, 2020 . .
  10. ↑ Tanja Gabler: Berlin-Domains für alle In: internetworld.de , May 16, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2018.
  11. ^ Eco Association: Names & Numbers Steering Committee starts work ( Memento from January 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: wn.com , May 16, 2017, accessed on January 15, 2018.
  12. ↑ Berlin House of Representatives: Urgent recommendation for a resolution In: parlament-berlin.de , December 11, 2017, accessed on January 15, 2018.
  13. ↑ Morgenpost Berlin: Now everyone can have an email address with .berlin In: morgenpost.de , May 29, 2018, accessed on May 30, 2018.
  14. ↑ Registration guidelines In: dot.berlin , accessed on January 19, 2018. (PDF; 171 kB, p. 2)