DENIC

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Type: Private, not-for-profit Cooperative
Industry: Registry
Founded: Germany, 1996
Headquarters: Kaiserstraße 75-77,
60329 Frankfurt
Country: Germany
Employees: 120 (2010)
Website: denic.de
Key People
Dr. Jörg Schweiger, Member, Executive Board, CTO

Sabine Dolderer, Member, Executive Board
Helga Krüger, Member, Executive Board
Carsten Schiefner, Member, Executive Board
Elmar Knipp, Chairman, Supervisory Board
Stefan Legner, Member, Supervisory Board

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

DENIC operates around 14 million domain names.[2]

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.[3]
  • 2006 A total of 10 million .de domains registered.
  • 2009 DENIC launches one- and two-character domains and domains composed exclusively of numerals.[4]

References

  1. ↑ About DENIC
  2. ↑ DENIC approaches 14 million mark
  3. ↑ DENIC submits bid for .net top-level domain
  4. ↑ Historical background of DENIC

External links

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