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With 387 .de domains per 1,000 inhabitants, Regensburg has scored the first place among German cities and administrative districts the second time in succession. This is the result of the 2008 annual regional domain statistics implemented by the German registry DENIC.

Domain Pulse 2009, an annual meeting organised by the registries of Austria (nic.at), Switzerland (SWITCH) and Germany (DENIC) will this year be held in Dresden, Germany on February 12 and 13...

As from December 2008, DENIC and the DENIC members will make available a new procedure to domain holders who want to change their provider. The central feature of this new procedure is the transmission of a password, which is called AuthInfo. The AuthInfo is valid exclusively for this specific…

Starting 15 April 2008, we will carry out step-by-step changes at the whois servers under whois.denic.de. In order to offer an improved service in future, we will equip the whois servers with a local database for status requests. This may result in a data output that does not correspond to the…

Since 23 September 2008, DENIC provides a new information service called Domaincheck (DCHK, which is the abbreviation for Domain Availibility Check). It serves for querying the status of .de and ENUM domains. In the long run, the new service shall replace the currently known domain status query via…