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Since 31 May 2011, the .de zone contains the public key which is suited for validation. Today, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has published the related DS record in the root zone. Thus, signed .de domains can be validated as of immediately.

On 31 May 2011, the German registry DENIC took the last step required to launch DNSSEC for .de: The .de zone now contains the final public key, which is suited for validation.

(Nearly) everything unchanged at the top as regards the cities and administrative districts with the largest numbers of domains per capita in Germany: With 591 .de domains per 1,000 inhabitants, the city of Osnabrück effortless holds its leading position among incorporated German cities. Among the…

DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) shall improve security for .de domains too in the future. This is the result of the broad-based test phase that ended with today's concluding meeting. DENIC is planning to launch DNSSEC on 31 May 2011. This will give registrars, ISPs and users sufficient…

On 12 January, the last nine remaining short domains were entered in the DENIC domain register. To ensure equal opportunities for all applicants also for the much-sought after short domains, the registration procedure was automated to a large extent and carried out according to the firdt come -…