It may be that you have received a version of our TRANSIT letter that varies somewhat from the version translated below.  The differences should be minimal and have no bearing on the information required to complete the TRANSIT procedure successfully.

TRANSIT

[Here is indicated your domain name]

You are the holder of the aforementioned domain, which until now has been administered for you by a provider. Your provider has ended the administration of your domain and turned it over to the direct administration of the DENIC eG, the central registry for all domains under the country code .de.

This means, your domain is currently going through the so-called TRANSIT procedure, which protects your domain and ensures that it cannot simply be deleted and consequently registered by a third party. The domain administration is provided by DENICdirect and is chargeable. Please be aware that DENICdirect does not provide internet services such as an e-mail account or web space.

Therefore, you are receiving the following demand for payment: Please pay without deduction by [Here is indicated the due date for payment] the charges in the amount of 58.00 Euro (including the statutory value added tax) for the first year of administration to the bank account given below or via PayPal to direct-paypal[at]denic[dot]de.

Payment amount: 58.00 Euro
Reason for payment: [Here is indicated our reference], [Here is indicated your domain name]
Payment due by:[Here is indicated the due date for payment]

Payment is only necessary if you wish to have your domain administered by our service DENICdirect.

Should you decide against having your domain administered by the service DENICdirect, we offer until [Here is indicated the deadline to act] the following options:

1. Provider transfer
2. Deletion

You can log in to transit.denic.de with the following credentials:

[Here is indicated your domain name]
[Here is indicated your individual TRANSIT password]

On this website, you can submit a deletion request online or generate your individual AuthInfo password to transfer your domain to a provider. In order for your future provider to complete the transfer, you will need to provide them with this password. DENIC will not charge you any fees for the provider transfer or the domain deletion.

As long as a domain is administered by a provider, this provider's prices apply for the administration of the domain and the obligation for the domain holder to pay the domain charges to DENIC is suspended. If however, the DENIC member ends it's administration of the domain, as in this case, the obligation to pay is reactivated and the domain holder must pay the domain charges directly to DENIC according to the price list currently in effect (denic.de/en/price-list). This is pursuant to § 4 of the DENIC Domain Terms and Conditions (denic.de/en/domain-terms-and-conditions).

Important Information:
If by [Here is indicated the deadline to act]

• payment in full has not been made, or
• no provider transfer has taken place, or
• the domain has not yet been deleted,

DENIC will terminate the contract without notice for the domain [Here is indicated your domain name] and carry out the deletion.

This is according to § 7 (2) lit. K) of the DENIC Domain Terms and Conditions (denic.de/en/domain-terms-and-conditions). In order to avoid an unintentional contract termination, please react within the time stated.

Please note: According to item VI of the DENIC Domain Guidelines (denic.de/en/domain-guidelines), the domain holder is required to provide their e-mail address. For the domain named above, no e-mail address has been included in the holder data. If you plan on keeping your domain, you can log in to transit.denic.de with the TRANSIT password given above or contact us to provide your e-mail address.

Please take notice of the data protection information in item VII of the DENIC Domain Guidelines (denic.de/en/domain-guidelines) and the data privacy note in § 8 of the DENIC Domain Terms and Conditions (denic.de/en/domain-terms-and-conditions). Due to legal retention obligations, DENIC will store the data of the invoice recipient until the end of the tenth full calendar year after payment or cancellation of the last invoice addressed to the invoice recipient. If the invoices are addressed and sent to the domain holder, DENIC will store the data of the domain holder - contrary to item VII paragraph 2 of the DENIC Domain Guidelines - at least until the end of the tenth full calendar year after payment or cancellation of the last invoice addressed to the domain holder due to legal retention obligations.

With kind regards
Your DENIC eG

Eine deutsche Fassung dieses Schreibens finden Sie auf unseren Webseiten unter denic.de/transit-brief-v4.