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On 28 March the international Internet organization, ICANN, announced the rankings achieved by the applications it had received to take over administration of the Top Level Domain .net. The application from the German registry, DENIC, finished in fourth place. This decision, which is based on an…

[Bitte in "english" übersetzen:] Vor kurzem berichteten die Medien über einen Fall, bei dem Internationalisierte Domains (IDNs) ausgenutzt wurden, um Nutzer auf eine Webseite zu locken, deren Domain zwar dem ersten Anschein nach einem bekannten Original entsprach, die jedoch von einem Dritten zu…

DENIC selects Tucows as exclusive partner for complementary North American registrar support, should the German registry be appointed the next .net registry by ICANN next month.

DENIC, the German domain registry, has massively upgraded and expanded its global name server network over the past few weeks. Now that the changes have been entered into the domain system's root servers and the final optimizations made, the switchover is complete and the new configuration is in…

Proven technical services, a strong orientation toward the needs of the international Internet community, and a business model that invests surplus profits in infrastructure improvement: these are the foundational concepts of the proposal submitted to ICANN today by DENIC eG in the bidding race for…