Press Releases

To support the efforts to ensure better worldwide distribution of the DNS root servers, DENIC eG as central registry for .de-domains and the Internet Association eco as operator of the exchange point DE-CIX are joining in the establishment and operation of a name server in Frankfurt, which is an…

The number of .de domains registered by DENIC has reached the mark of seven millions on 19 January 2004. Thus, .de has further extended its lead as most popular country code Top Level Domain of the world.

DENIC as an self-contained institution celebrates anniversary From one thousand to seven millions in ten years: this is the figure which marks the performance of DENIC on the area of domains. On 1 January 1994, DENIC started in an institutionaslised form as a project financed from third-party…

On 8 December 2003 DENIC starts up the operation of a new .de name server in Berlin. This also means, that from now one DENIC is operating all name servers, which contain the accesss information of all .de domains by itself.

In Germany, numerous people have surnames written with letters with so-called umlauts. They include the Müllers, Jägers and Schröders, and as of 1 March next year they will no longer have to make do with transcribing their surnames as mueller.de, jaeger.de or schroeder.de if they want to use them…