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Bundesgerichtshof decides in favour of the .de registry in the "kurt-biedenkopf.de" case The former minister-president of the German federal state of Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf, has lost his case before the German Supreme Court (the "Bundesgerichtshof"). This judgement from the highest court in the…

For two days, 5 and 6 February 2004, the city of Zurichstood at the heart of the German-speaking Internet. More than 150 participants attended the specialist conference, Domain pulse, which was organized jointly by the three registries, DENIC (for .de), nic.at (for .at) and SWITCH (for .ch and .li),…

To support the efforts to ensure better worldwide distribution of the DNS root servers, DENIC eG as central registry for .de-domains and the Internet Association eco as operator of the exchange point DE-CIX are joining in the establishment and operation of a name server in Frankfurt, which is an…

The number of .de domains registered by DENIC has reached the mark of seven millions on 19 January 2004. Thus, .de has further extended its lead as most popular country code Top Level Domain of the world.

DENIC as an self-contained institution celebrates anniversary From one thousand to seven millions in ten years: this is the figure which marks the performance of DENIC on the area of domains. On 1 January 1994, DENIC started in an institutionaslised form as a project financed from third-party…