Press Releases

Frankfurt, 23 October 2009 – The new possibilities for registering .de domains has met with great interest among the users. DENIC as the responsible registry announces the following interim result of the registration process being conducted since 09:00 this morning: By 14:00, 73998 applications have…

DENIC will amend its Domain Guidelines with effect from 23 October 2009 and will thus abolish most of the restrictions currently applicable with regard to the registration of second level domains under the TLD .de.

DENIC upgraded its whois services with effect from 22 September 2009. The most essential amendment is the improved protection of domain holder data. Users must now decipher a Captcha to get access to them. This ensures that domain queries can only be submitted by authorized persons and not by…

.de domains crossed another million mark. On 19 August 2009, the German registry DENIC received the registration request for the thirteen millionth .de domain: gallery-december.de is the name of the jubilee domain. The holder is Gerald Zörner from Berlin.

Already when entering an Internet address in a web browser, Internet users run the risk of being redirected to a fraudulent site. Improved security tools in the Domain Name System (DNS) are intended to close these security holes, which have publicized by the Kaminsky report and thus make…