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New gTLD Case Study, Update #5: 100 Dot Berlin Domains

Posted on 18 June 2014 by Andrei

Got an email about the fact that 101Domain is offering up to 100 free Dot Berlin domain, so I thought it would be an interesting experience to register 100, point them to “this domain is for sale” landing pages and see what happens.

Today, I’ll be sharing those domains as well as a few details about the approach I’ve chosen.

First and foremost, I decided to register three letter Dot Berlin domains and furthermore, decided to pick the letters based on their usage frequency in Germany. Please note that one letter might be more popular in the English language than in the German one, so whenever you want to analyze the letter quality of a domain, don’t forget to ask yourself who your target audience is.

I used this Wikipedia page when picking the letters.

Most of the 100 domains I’ve registered (70) contain the 8 most popular letters in Germany:

e
n
i
s
r
a
t
d

For the remaining 30, I also used the 9th most popular letter: h

To generate all possible letter combinations, just use this website, type in one letter per row and then write down “.berlin” in the “Suffix sets with” box.

That’s it, you’ll receive a list of domains in the “LLL.berlin” (one domain per row) format that you can simply copy/paste over at 101Domain to check for availability.

The entire process (picking the domains and hand registering them) took about 20 minutes or so.

Next, I set up “domain for sale” landing pages on each domain.

I’m not from Germany but my German is reasonably good, so the landing pages contain a message in English as well as the German version. If you can’t speak German and want to use an online translation tool, please keep in mind that the translation won’t be perfect and in fact may contain errors that might make your landing page seem unprofessional.

I’d recommend asking someone who knows German for an opinion or if you want to simply use the message I have on my landing pages (or a variation thereof), feel free to do that. I don’t mind.

As you’ll be able to see by taking a look at the landing pages below, I’m pricing all of them at 295 EUR, approximately $400 at the current exchange rate.

Pointing the 100 domains to “domain for sale” landing pages took about 30-40 minutes.

All in all, I’ve invested 50-60 minutes of my time.

Dot Berlin is a desirable extension in my opinion, should be an interesting experiment.

Here are the domains:

ADH.Berlin
ADT.Berlin
AHE.Berlin
AHH.Berlin
AHI.Berlin
AHT.Berlin
ARN.Berlin
ARR.Berlin
DSI.Berlin
DSN.Berlin
DTH.Berlin
EDH.Berlin
EDR.Berlin
EDS.Berlin
EDT.Berlin
EED.Berlin
EEH.Berlin
ENE.Berlin
ENI.Berlin
HND.Berlin
HNE.Berlin
HNH.Berlin
HNN.Berlin
HNR.Berlin
IHD.Berlin
NEA.Berlin
NEH.Berlin
NNA.Berlin
NNE.Berlin
NNI.Berlin
NNR.Berlin
RER.Berlin
RET.Berlin
RNI.Berlin
RNN.Berlin
RNR.Berlin
SAD.Berlin
SAR.Berlin
SAS.Berlin
SDA.Berlin
SDD.Berlin
SDH.Berlin
SDI.Berlin
SDN.Berlin
SDR.Berlin
SDT.Berlin
SER.Berlin
SHA.Berlin
SII.Berlin
SRN.Berlin
STE.Berlin
STH.Berlin
STN.Berlin
TAA.Berlin
TAD.Berlin
TAE.Berlin
TAH.Berlin
TDA.Berlin
TDE.Berlin
TDH.Berlin
TDI.Berlin
TDN.Berlin
TDR.Berlin
TDS.Berlin
TEH.Berlin
TER.Berlin
TET.Berlin
THA.Berlin
THD.Berlin
THI.Berlin
THR.Berlin
THT.Berlin
TIA.Berlin
TID.Berlin
TIH.Berlin
TII.Berlin
TIR.Berlin
TIT.Berlin
TNA.Berlin
TND.Berlin
TNH.Berlin
TNI.Berlin
TNN.Berlin
TNS.Berlin
TNT.Berlin
TRA.Berlin
TRD.Berlin
TRE.Berlin
TRH.Berlin
TRN.Berlin
TRR.Berlin
TRS.Berlin
TSE.Berlin
TSN.Berlin
TTA.Berlin
TTD.Berlin
TTE.Berlin
TTH.Berlin
TTI.Berlin
TTS.Berlin

1 Comments For This Post

  1. Joe Says:

    Thanks for the tip. I managed to register 100 .Berlin domains just before the promotion ended.