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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. Today, DENIC had initiated a corresponding change in…

DENIC’s domain statistics for 2003 show the persistence of a big divide between East and West. The vast majority of domains are registered for private individuals. In 2003, the number of .de domains registered in Germany’s eastern federal states remained far behind those registered in its western…

Big response to DENIC’s second one-day ENUM event For the second time, DENIC, the .de registry, has organized an information event concerning the ongoing trials with ENUM, a new technology that bridges the gap between telecommunications and the Internet. ENUM and the ENUM services are going to…

600,000 domain applications processed Having worked its way through around 600,000 domain applications, DENIC now feels that it can declare the introductory phase for IDNs in Germany to be at an end. And it has been a success. Since 1 March 2004, it has been possible to apply for…

öko.de is the first .de domain with umlauts –  350,000 domain applications received On the first day on which it became possible to register internationalized domain names (IDNs), in which numerous diacritics including umlauts and accents are permitted too, there was already a massive demand for…