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.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…

DENIC, the registry for .de domains, has signed a contract with the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC: www.isc.org) agreeing to substantially contribute to the development of BIND10. BIND is the world’s best-known software for name servers – the servers that translate domain names into IP addresses.…

Domain Pulse 2009, an annual meeting organised by the registries of Austria (nic.at), Switzerland (SWITCH) and Germany (DENIC) will this year be held in Dresden, Germany on February 12 and 13. The conference is the most significant conference in the German-speaking region on domain names, and this…

As from December 2008, DENIC and the DENIC members will make available a new procedure to domain holders who want to change their provider. The central feature of this new procedure is the transmission of a password, which is called AuthInfo. The AuthInfo is valid exclusively for this specific…