Press Releases

The DENIC Success Story Continues –Technical Excellence Guarantees Security and Stability Today, DENIC, the central registry for the German Top Level Domain (TLD), .de, received the eight millionth application for the registration of a domain. DENIC has now still further improved the position of…

DENIC Organizes Third ENUM Day with Focus on Security In the context of the ongoing ENUM trial in Germany, DENIC, the registry in charge, organized its third ENUM Day on 28 September 2004. ENUM is a new technology which bridges the gap between the worlds of telecommunications and the Internet.…

In the course of the past weekend, the domain data of the Internet auction business, ebay.de, was illicitly changed for a short period of time. For a while, the domain was inaccessible. On Saturday morning, news of this unauthorized change reached DENIC. It reacted straight away and, in accord with…

At the end of 2003, the German domain registry, DENIC, started operating a name server (a.nic.de AAAA 2001:608:6::5) with a new IPv6 address. In future it is also going to be possible to find this name server at this same address in the Root Zone. Today, DENIC had initiated a corresponding change in…

DENIC’s domain statistics for 2003 show the persistence of a big divide between East and West. The vast majority of domains are registered for private individuals. In 2003, the number of .de domains registered in Germany’s eastern federal states remained far behind those registered in its western…