DENIC

DENIC is responsible for managing the top-level domain .de (Germany). DENIC is a registered cooperative with its head office in Frankfurt am Main.

Type:	Private, Not-for-profit Cooperative
Industry:	Internet, Registrar
Founded:	Germany (1996)
Headquarters:	DENIC eG, Kaiserstraße 75-77, 60329 Frankfurt, Germany
Employees:	120 (2010)
Website:	http://www.denic.de
Key People
Sabine Dolderer, Member-Executive Board Helga Krüger, Member-Executive Board Carsten Schiefner, Member-Executive Board Dr. Jörg Schweiger, Member-Executive Board Elmar Knipp, Chairman-Supervisory Board

DENIC operates around 14 million domain names.

History

• 1996/December DENIC was formed as a Cooperative.

• 1997/July Business operations of DENIC changed from Karlsruhe to Frankfurt.

• 1999/October 1 million .de domains registered.

• 2000/July DENIC members reaches 100.

• 2005 DENIC Submits Bid for Management of .net top-level domain.

• 2006/June 10 million .de domains registered.

• 2009/October DENIC launches one- and two-character domains and domains composed exclusively of numerals.

External links

• Official website of DENIC in German
• Official website of DENIC in English