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.de
Introduced 1986
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry DENIC
Sponsoring organization None
Intended use Entities connected with Flag of Germany Germany
Actual use Very popular in Germany
Registration restrictions Must have administrative contact resident in Germany
Structure May register at second level
Documents
Dispute policies DISPUTE-Entries
Web site denic.de

.de is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Federal Republic of Germany. DENIC (the Network Information Centre responsible for .de domains) does not require specific second-level domains, as it is the case with the .uk domain range for example. Image File history File links Denic. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the . ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the . ... A Network Information Centre (NIC), also known as domain registry, is part of the Domain Name System of the Internet. ... In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a second-level domain is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain (TLD). ...


The name is based on the first two letters of the German name for Germany (Deutschland).


In Spanish, "de" is the genitive form (like "of" in English), so there are a lot of Spanish hosters that offer customized sites like elforo.de (the forum.of) or elblog.de (theblog.of), putting your name after it (example: elforo.de/wikipedia theforum.of/wikipedia)[1].


.de is currently the most popular ccTLD in terms of number of registrations, and is second after .com among all TLDs.[1]. For dot-com companies, see dot-com company. ...


The first point of registration for .de domains was at the Dortmund University Department of Computer Science. unido.de was the first registered .de-domain Dortmund University Dortmund University (German: Universität Dortmund) is a medium-sized university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 20,000 students, and over 3,000 staff. ...


.de registrations may be directly ordered from DENIC but it is faster and cheaper to do so via a DENIC member (registrar). DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the . ... DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the . ... A domain name registrar is a company accredited, either by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), or by a national ccTLD authority or both, to register Internet domain names . ...


Registrations of internationalized domain names are also accepted (see details). Example of Arabic IDN Example of Chinese IDN An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters. ...


References

  1. ^ elforo.de elblog.de

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