DENIC

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

DENIC operates around 14 million domain names.

History

• 1996 DENIC was formed as a Cooperative.

• 1997 Business operations of DENIC moved from Karlsruhe to Frankfurt.

• 1999 A total of 1 million .de domains registered.

• 2000 DENIC members reach 100.

• 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.

External links

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