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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…

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…