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26 October 2010: Characters permitted in .de domains soon to include "ß"
DENIC plans to update Domain Guidelines effective 16 November 2010 – Sunrise period for holders of domains with names containing "ss" starting on 26 October 2010. Effective 16 November 2010, the central registry for .de domains, DENIC, will abolish the rule that forbids the Latin small letter sharp…
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14 September 2010: Study Underlines Excellent Brand Image of .de
In a recently published study investigating the ranking and the attractiveness of Top Level Domains as assessed by Internet users the ccTLD .de scored excellently and recorded the best TLD result, preceding .com and .co.uk - another proof of DENIC's high quality and competence, thus reflected in the…
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12 May 2010: Partial Disturbance of the DNS Service for .de Domains
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…
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22 April 2010: DENIC General Assembly: Executive Board and Supervisory Board Confirmed in Office
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…
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1 April 2010: Osnabrück Is The New Domain Stronghold in Germany
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…