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DENIC has been receiving an increasing number of questions as to why so many of the new IDNs have providers entered as domain holders and representatives of their customers. Contrary to apparent first impressions, it does not mean that DENIC members have acted because they had a direct interest of…

The registration of IDNs, domain that may contain umlauts and diacritics, is proceeding regularly and speedy. Until this morning, more than half a million of registration requests have bee received by DENIC, more than 200,000 of them have been processed already, The result was a number of about…

Since 1 March 10:00:00 CET it is possible to register IDNs under .de. Details on the current status can be found on a special page.

From 1 March 2004 on, we will use a new, IDN-capable whois server and like to give some further information on that.

The former minister-president of the German federal state of Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf, has lost his case before the German Supreme Court (the "Bundesgerichtshof"). This judgement from the highest court in the land confirms the earlier ones handed down by the lower courts, where the plaintiff had…