General
- Extension
- .berlin
- Type
- Regional extension
- Meaning
- Berlin
- Registry
- dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG
- Registry website
- nic.berlin
- Registered since
- 19 December 2013
- ICANN agreement
- since 31 October 2013
Properties
- DNSSEC signed
- yes
- Name servers
- 3 (3 with IPv6)
- WHOIS server
- whois.nic.berlin
- RDAP server
- rdap.nic.berlin/v1
- At 1blu
- available to order directly
Registration conditions
- Who may register?
- Persons and organisations with an economic, cultural, historical, social or other connection to Berlin, e.g. through residence, seat or branch in Berlin. Trustees are permitted.
- Use
- The domain should be used within 12 months in connection with the eligibility. If proof is missing, there are 14 days to remedy it, after which the domain may be deleted.
- Length
- 1 to 63 characters.
- Characters
- 0–9, a–z, hyphen and certain Latin and Cyrillic special characters. No hyphen at the beginning or end, not in positions 3 and 4.
- Registrant data
- Name, street, city, state/province and postal code where applicable, country, phone and e-mail of the registrant; an organisation is optional. Personal data is redacted in public lookups where data protection law requires it.
- Allocation
- First come, first served.
- Term
- 1 to 10 years.
- Transfer
- Transfer only to other eligible parties.
- Disputes
- Disputes about eligibility via the ERDRP procedure.
- After expiry
- Restore possible during the Redemption Grace Period (ICANN rules).
The registry's current rules are binding: nic.berlin.
Sources: dotBERLIN: Registration policies (11 May 2020) · ICANN Transfer Policy · ICANN UDRP · ICANN Registration Data Policy · IANA Root Zone Database: .berlin · As of 28 October 2026
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