At the end of 2003, the German domain registry, DENIC, started operating a name server (a.nic.de AAAA 2001:608:6::5) with a new IPv6 address. In future it is also going to be possible to find this name server at this same address in the Root Zone. On 27 July DENIC had initiated a corresponding change in the entries. Last week, ICANN, the body that coordinates the Internet internationally, changed its practice and admitted IPv6 entries in the Root Zone – a move that had been under discussion for a long time previously. The Top Level Domain .de is thus one of the first in the world to make its name servers available with the new addresses. DENIC is currently considering if and when, as a follow-on measure, glue records might also be introduced in the .de zone.