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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.

On 1 January 1994, DENIC started in an institutionaslised form as a project financed from third-party funds at the University of Karlsruhe. This was the beginnung of a story of success, which is documented not only by the fact, that .de is the second most used Top Level Domain in the world following…

On 8 December 2003 DENIC starts up the operation of a new .de name server in Berlin. This also means, that from now one DENIC is operating all name servers which contain the accesss information of all .de domains by itself.

Starting 1 March 2004, domains with Umlauts and other additional letters (so called IDNs) can be registered under the Top Level Domain .de. Details may be found in the IDN section of this web site or the IDN-FAQ. ...