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On 26 November 2010 another milestone was reached - DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain. A real success story, if you take into consideration that the Registry started very small in 1986 and that domain administration initially was carried out rather informally. Today, .de has become the…

Umlauts have been allowed to be used in .de domains already since 2004. Only one letter of the German alphabet was still missing – the Latin small letter sharp s, also known as “eszett”. After the revised standard for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNAbis) had taken effect on 4…

DENIC plans to update Domain Guidelines effective 16 November 2010 – Sunrise period for holders of domains with names containing "ss" starting on 26 October 2010. Effective 16 November 2010, the central registry for .de domains, DENIC, will abolish the rule that forbids the Latin small letter sharp…

In a recently published study investigating the ranking and the attractiveness of Top Level Domains as assessed by Internet users the ccTLD .de scored excellently and recorded the best TLD result, preceding .com and .co.uk - another proof of DENIC's high quality and competence, thus reflected in the…

Today at around 1:30 p.m. (CEST), DENIC, the manager of the country-code TLD .de, noted that the .de DNS service partially sent out “NX”, i.e. “non-existent domain” responses for parts of its overall domain inventory, although the relevant domains are actually existing. In the meantime, the bug was…