.de domains crossed another million mark. On 19 August 2009, the German registry DENIC received the registration request for the thirteen millionth .de domain: gallery-december.de is the name of the jubilee domain. The holder is Gerald Zörner from Berlin.

The German Top Level Domain increases by about one million registrations every year. For both private and commercial Internet users in Germany .de domains are the first choice. Statistically, in 2008, about every seventh inhabitant of the Federal Republic of Germany had registered a domain (13.6 percent). 461,294 of these are so-called IDNs, i.e. they contain umlauts or characters with accents. The fact that the 13 millionth domain has an English name is underscores the great variety and attractiveness of .de domains.

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