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Together and alternate with the registries of Germany (DENIC) and Switzerland (SWITCH), nic.at will perform the next Domain Pulse symposium on 3 and 4 February 2005. Domain Pulse is the most significant event in the German-speaking area with regard to contemporary issues, tendencies and trends…

DENIC eG is to submit a bid to take over the administration of the .net Top Level Domain (TLD), which is currently the object of a competitive bidding process. This decision was taken on 22 November with a large majority in favour by the members of the Frankfurt-based registry, which is organized in…

On 7 October DENIC, the central registry for the German Top Level Domain (TLD) .de, received the eight millionth application for the registration of a domain. It is tobihellmann.de. DENIC has now still further improved the position of .de as the world’s favourite country code TLD, ahead of .uk,…

In the context of the ongoing ENUM trial in Germany, DENIC, the registry in charge, organized its third ENUM Day on 28 September 2004. Some 140 experts, including many DENIC members already offering ENUM domains, telecommunication-services providers and academics, discussed the progress that ENUM…

In the course of the past weekend, 28 August the domain data of the Internet auction business, ebay.de, was illicitly changed for a short period of time. For a while, the domain was inaccessible. On Saturday morning, news of this unauthorized change reached DENIC. It reacted straight away and, in…