As the first city in the world Berlin got its own domain name. .berlin will be available additionally to the traditional .com or .de for “Deutschland”.
Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, said at a launch event that the domain “offers the possibility to highlight digitally that Berlin is where you live your life or base your business activities”.
Domains for other major German cities like .hamburg and .koeln are set to launch in the future. Also .nyc, .paris, .roma and .london are said to be available in the future to make more domains available to meet the needs of the expanding internet.