We received this announcement from 101Domain, notifying us of the immediate cancellation of the dot .Berlin free domain giveaway:
101domain has been notified that the .BERLIN promotion that was to run until Friday June 20th, 2014, has been extraordinarily cancelled early. As of 1pm PST today, June 18th, the free .BERLIN promotion will unfortunately come to an end.
According to the dotBERLIN registry, demand was exceedingly above their anticipated volumes, so they have decided to pull the plug early.
We would like to congratulate everyone that was able to get their free .BERLIN registrations in during this amazing opportunity and would like to express our utmost regret to those that were unable to register before this early cancellation.
If you wanted a free dot .Berlin domain and didn’t get one, don’t be sad ok? 😀 With so many gTLD registries willing to give away domains for free, chances are that another domain freebiethon will be announced soon.
Fortunately I managed to grab 100 free .Berlin domains 1 hour before the promotion ended.