DENIC

Organization

Type	private, not-for-profit cooperative
Focus	Registry
Country
City	Frankfurt
Founded	1996
Websites	denic.de

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]

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