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DENIC eG is to submit a bid to take over the administration of the .net Top Level Domain (TLD), which is currently the object of a competitive bidding process. This decision was taken on 22 November with a large majority in favour by the members of the Frankfurt-based registry, which is organized in…

On 7 October DENIC, the central registry for the German Top Level Domain (TLD) .de, received the eight millionth application for the registration of a domain. It is tobihellmann.de. DENIC has now still further improved the position of .de as the world’s favourite country code TLD, ahead of .uk,…

In the context of the ongoing ENUM trial in Germany, DENIC, the registry in charge, organized its third ENUM Day on 28 September 2004. Some 140 experts, including many DENIC members already offering ENUM domains, telecommunication-services providers and academics, discussed the progress that ENUM…

In the course of the past weekend, 28 August the domain data of the Internet auction business, ebay.de, was illicitly changed for a short period of time. For a while, the domain was inaccessible. On Saturday morning, news of this unauthorized change reached DENIC. It reacted straight away and, in…

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…