 According to the dotBERLIN Organization, .berlin will allow all Berliners to register their domains under .berlin 

Along with TLDs such as .cat and .asia, .berlin and other new TLDs fall into the new category of GeoTLDs.The issue of new top level domains in general and .berlin in particular has been discussed at various ICANN-Meetings since 2005.A statement by proponents of the .berlin proposal reads thus