DENIC
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| Type: | Private, not-for-profit Cooperative |
| Industry: | Registry |
| Founded: | Germany, 1996 |
| Headquarters: | Kaiserstr. 75-77 60329 Frankfurt |
| Country: | Germany |
| Products: | .de |
| Employees: | 112 (2015) |
| Revenue: | €14.5m (2014) |
| Website: | denic.de |
| Facebook: | DENIC |
| LinkedIn: | denic-eg |
| Twitter: |  @denic_de
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| Key People | |
| Dr. Jörg Schweiger, Member, Executive Board, CEO Andreas Musielak, Member, Executive Board, COO | |
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
The .de registry originally dates back to November 5th, 1986, where it began in an academic environment.[2]
Historical Timeline
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 About DENIC
- ↑ DENIC eG, CENTR.org. Updated 2015 August 4.
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