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On 5 November 2011, the German Top Level Domain .de will be 25 years young! Largest country code TLD with more than 14.6 million registered domains - more than 7 billion name server queries per day - elected TLD with best brand image by the Internet community: a fairytale balance!

Three characters marked the emergence of the information society in Germany 25 years ago: About 100,000 times per second an Internet address ending with .de is called up from somewhere in the world. Today, there are more than 14.6 million such addresses, and about 3,000 new ones are added every day.…

Since 31 May 2011, the .de zone contains the public key which is suited for validation. Today, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has published the related DS record in the root zone. Thus, signed .de domains can be validated as of immediately.

On 31 May 2011, the German registry DENIC took the last step required to launch DNSSEC for .de: The .de zone now contains the final public key, which is suited for validation.

(Nearly) everything unchanged at the top as regards the cities and administrative districts with the largest numbers of domains per capita in Germany: With 591 .de domains per 1,000 inhabitants, the city of Osnabrück effortless holds its leading position among incorporated German cities. Among the…