8 millions de-domains

DENIC, the registry of the German Top Level Domain (TLD) has announced, that it has received the eight millionth application for the registration of a de-domain. The de-domain has the position as the world’s favourite Country Code TLD, ahead of .uk, which has about 3.7 million registrations. The de-domains are also numerically stronger than nearly all the generic Top Level Domains that are used such as .org-domains, .net-domains, info-domains and biz-domains. Only one com-domain with more than 30 million domains is more often registered than the de-domain.



October 2004

.de 7.981.014 (Increment compared to one month ago: 89.793)

.at 367.987 (Increment compared to one month ago: 4.766)

.com 31.017.772 (Increment compared to one month ago: 750.631)

.net 4.999.073 (Increment compared to one month ago: 88.952)

.org 3.138.385 (Increment compared to one month ago: 37.607)

.info 1.919.331 (Increment compared to one month ago: 683.846)

.biz 1.041.432 (Increment compared to one month ago: 13.118)

.us 881.411 (Increment compared to one month ago: 6.395)





The de-domain is not totally liberalized, as it seems. Foreign companies and individuals can register also de-domains and sell products and services to the

attractive German market by websites, but they must have a German Admin-C.

DENIC-Member and ICANN accredited registrar Secura provides automatically

this German Admin-C during the registration process.



Hans-Peter Oswald

https://www.domainregistry.de/de-domain.html





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