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16 March 2004: ENUM approaching maturity for regular use
Big response to DENIC’s second one-day ENUM event
For the second time, DENIC, the .de registry, has organized an information event concerning the ongoing trials with ENUM, a new technology that bridges the gap between telecommunications and the Internet. ENUM and the ENUM services are going to…
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3 March 2004: IDN start-up phase now completed at DENIC
600,000 domain applications processed
Having worked its way through around 600,000 domain applications, DENIC now feels that it can declare the introductory phase for IDNs in Germany to be at an end. And it has been a success. Since 1 March 2004, it has been possible to apply for…
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1 March 2004: Introduction of umlaut domains met with huge interest
öko.de is the first .de domain with umlauts – 350,000 domain applications received
On the first day on which it became possible to register internationalized domain names (IDNs), in which numerous diacritics including umlauts and accents are permitted too, there was already a massive demand for…
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20 February 2004: No obligation on DENIC to block domains
Bundesgerichtshof decides in favour of the .de registry in the "kurt-biedenkopf.de" case
The former minister-president of the German federal state of Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf, has lost his case before the German Supreme Court (the "Bundesgerichtshof"). This judgement from the highest court in the…
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9 February 2004: Domains with umlauts and public-private partnerships were the central issues at ?Domain pulse?
For two days, 5 and 6 February 2004, the city of Zurichstood at the heart of the German-speaking Internet. More than 150 participants attended the specialist conference, Domain pulse, which was organized jointly by the three registries, DENIC (for .de), nic.at (for .at) and SWITCH (for .ch and .li),…