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On 18 April 2012 at 12:56 CEST it was registered, the 15 millionth domain with a .de ending. Its flowery name: floristennetzwerk.de, which means florists' network. Domain owner Alexander Kleerebezem is not alone with his choice. Every month, an average of about 50,000 .de domains is registered with…

Conference day two of Domain pulse 2012 in Hamburg: Why does the planned international copyright convention ACTA cause a stir in the Internet community? Do we really have to fear that net communication will be increasingly controlled? Exciting topics on the second day of the specialist conference…

How does the conception of man change and which skills will be needed in the future, in an increasingly networked world? The first day of the ninth specialist conference Domain pulse, which is held in Hamburg this year, provided interesting statements, forecasts and answers to these and other highly…

On 5 November 2011, the German Top Level Domain .de will be 25 years young! Largest country code TLD with more than 14.6 million registered domains - more than 7 billion name server queries per day - elected TLD with best brand image by the Internet community: a fairytale balance!

Three characters marked the emergence of the information society in Germany 25 years ago: About 100,000 times per second an Internet address ending with .de is called up from somewhere in the world. Today, there are more than 14.6 million such addresses, and about 3,000 new ones are added every day.…