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DENIC

Organization
Type private, not-for-profit cooperative
Focus Registry
Region EUR
Country
  • Germany
City Frankfurt
Founded 1996
Websites https://www.denic.de/

DENIC is responsible for managing .de, Germany's ccTLD. DENIC is a registered cooperative with its head office in Frankfurt.[1]

DENIC operates around 16 million domain names.[1]

.de[edit | edit source]

The .de registry originally dates back to November 5th, 1986, where it began in an academic environment.[2]

Historical Timeline[edit | edit source]

  • 1986 The country code .de for Germany is entered in the IANA database
  • 1994 Karlsruhe University takes over the name server service for .de in the name of IV-DENIC
  • 1996 The DENIC Cooperative is founded
  • 1997 DENIC starts operation at its new headquarters in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1999 DENIC takes over technical domain administration and thus renders all services around .de
  • 1999 The threshold of one million .de domains is passed
  • 2000 DENIC members reach 100.
  • 2003 DENIC members reach 200.
  • 2004 DENIC allows umlauts and special characters (IDNs) to be used in domain names and makes available the name server service under IPv6.
  • 2005 DENIC Submits Bid for Management of .net TLD.
  • 2006 A total of 10 million .de domains registered.
  • 2009 DENIC launches one- and two-character domains and domains composed exclusively of numerals.
  • 2010 DENIC introduces the letter “eszett”. Now the complete German alphabet is permitted for domain names under .de.
  • 2011 DENIC launches the secure extension DNSSEC for the .de zone.
  • 2012 over 15 million .de domains are under management by DENIC.
  • 2013 With the Redemption Grace Period (RGP), DENIC introduces a 30-day waiting period for deleted domains.
  • 2014 DANE and DNSSEC secure DENICs e-mail communication by channel encryption
  • 2015 The threshold of 16 million .de domains is passed

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 About DENIC
  2. DENIC eG, CENTR.org. Updated 2015 August 4.

External links[edit | edit source]

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