Press Releases

DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) shall improve security for .de domains too in the future. This is the result of the broad-based test phase that ended with today's concluding meeting. DENIC is planning to launch DNSSEC on 31 May 2011. This will give registrars, ISPs and users sufficient…

On 12 January, the last nine remaining short domains were entered in the DENIC domain register. To ensure equal opportunities for all applicants also for the much-sought after short domains, the registration procedure was automated to a large extent and carried out according to the firdt come -…

On 12 January 2011, 10:00 CET, the central German registry DENIC is going to make available nine short domains for registration which were previously blocked due to temporary injunctions: dw.de, e.de, f.de, g.de, hr.de, sr.de, x.de, y.de and z.de.

On 26 November 2010 another milestone was reached - DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain. A real success story, if you take into consideration that the Registry started very small in 1986 and that domain administration initially was carried out rather informally. Today, .de has become the…

Umlauts have been allowed to be used in .de domains already since 2004. Only one letter of the German alphabet was still missing – the Latin small letter sharp s, also known as “eszett”. After the revised standard for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNAbis) had taken effect on 4…