On 20 August DENIC received the request to register the nine millionth .de domain. The number of Internet addresses registered under the German Top Level Domain has thus continued to grow. Roughly a million .de domains are added every year. The country code ending .de remains the world’s second favourite after .com. Even people and organizations outside of Germany are keen to have .de domains. More than 80,000 holders of .de domains are based abroad, most of them in our neighbouring countries of Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

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