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1 March 2004: Introduction of umlaut domains met with huge interest
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…
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20 February 2004: No obligation on DENIC to block domains
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…
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9 February 2004: Domains with umlauts and public-private partnerships were the central issues at ?Domain pulse?
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),…
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20 January 2004: DENIC and eco to sponsor first root server in Germany
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…
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19 January 2004: For the first time more than seven million de. domains registered
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.
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