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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. On 27 July DENIC had initiated a corresponding…

Since all functionality of our "finger"-service (finger.denic.de), which is not capable of IDN, is included in the new version of our whois-service (whois.denic.de), we are planning to deactivate our finger-service on 3 May 2004. We would like to request everyone, still using our finger-service,…

There will be new DENIC Domain Guidelines and DENIC Domain Terms and Conditions becoming valid on 1 April 2004. The names have changed (from Registration ... to Domain ...), and the content has been formulated more concise and has been partly regrouped.

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 open up the whole world of communications to users…

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. More than 130 000 new domains have been registered with DENIC during the past 48 hours – an absolute record. Never before have DENIC…