Press Releases

Today at around 1:30 p.m. (CEST), DENIC, the manager of the country-code TLD .de, noted that the .de DNS service partially sent out “NX”, i.e. “non-existent domain” responses for parts of its overall domain inventory, although the relevant domains are actually existing. In the meantime, the bug was…

At the ordinary General Assembly held today in Frankfurt am Main, the members of DENIC decided on the composition of the Cooperative's bodies through 2013. In the elections of the honorary members of the Executive and the Supervisory Board according to the DENIC Statues, only one member of the…

There is a new number one among cities and administrative districts with the largest number of domains per capita in Germany: With 451 DE domains per 1,000 inhabitants, the city of Osnabrück catapulted itself to the top of the winner's podium in 2009. This is the result of the 2009 annual regional…

The central Registry for .de domains, DENIC, remains free to carry out registrations of domains newly allowed to be registered, such as the one- and two-character domains and domains whose name is composed exclusively of numerals, as per a specific point in time with the exclusive applicable…

Also in Germany, security technologies on the Internet are becoming more and more topical due to an increasing number of occurrences of data misuse in the recent past. One potential source of attack is the data path between DNS servers and resolvers. This is the result of attacks such as cache…