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As from December 2008, DENIC and the DENIC members will make available a new procedure to domain holders who want to change their provider. The central feature of this new procedure is the transmission of a password, which is called AuthInfo. The AuthInfo is valid exclusively for this specific…

Starting 15 April 2008, we will carry out step-by-step changes at the whois servers under whois.denic.de. In order to offer an improved service in future, we will equip the whois servers with a local database for status requests. This may result in a data output that does not correspond to the…

Since 23 September 2008, DENIC provides a new information service called Domaincheck (DCHK, which is the abbreviation for Domain Availibility Check). It serves for querying the status of .de and ENUM domains. In the long run, the new service shall replace the currently known domain status query via…

Recently, all well-known producers of DNS software and various Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) have drawn attention to a current problem with the DNS, which provides the basis for third parties to sneak in forged information to name servers. With the explications below DENIC wants to inform about…

On 18 April 2008 the 10th ENUM Day of DENIC took place in Frankfurt am Main. The presentations held are available at our ENUM Day website.