Information about .de

**.de**

Introduced	1986
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	DENIC
Sponsor	None
Intended use	Entities connected with 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

.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.

The name is based on the first two letters of the German name for Germany (Deutschland). Prior to 1989, East Germany had a separate ISO 3166-1 code (dd) but it was never assigned its own ccTLD; de is the only German ccTLD that ever existed.

In Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese "de" is the genitive form (like "of" in English), so there are a lot of Latin-speakers 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].

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

.de registrations may be directly ordered from DENIC but it is faster and cheaper to do so via a DENIC member (registrar).

The domain name must have at least 3 letters, not only numbers and may not be a German license plate code. The only current known exceptions are db.de (Deutsche Bahn), ix.de and hq.de which have only 2 letters.

Registrations of internationalized domain names are also accepted (see details).

References

1. ^ elforo.de elblog.de

External links

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See also: Generic top-level domains

19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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1983 1984 1985 - 1986 - 1987 1988 1989

Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI
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A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
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DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany.

In 2005, it was one of five bidders seeking to win contract to operate the .net contract offered by ICANN.

External links

DENIC.

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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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External links

DENIC.

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A domain name registry, also called Network Information Centre (NIC), is part of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet which converts domain names to IP addresses.
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In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a second-level domain (SLD) is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain (TLD). For example, in wikipedia.org, wikipedia is the second-level domain of the .org TLD.
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.uk

Introduced 1985
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Nominet UK
Sponsor Nominet UK
Intended use Entities connected with
United Kingdom
Actual use Very popular in UK, especially .co.
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German language (Deutsch, ] (help info ) ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
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Spanish, Castilian}}}
Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: —
ISO 639-3: —

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Romanian}}}
Official status
Official language of: Moldova ^[2]
Romania
Vojvodina (Serbia)

European Union
Regulated by: Academia Română
Language codes
ISO 639-1: ro
ISO 639-2: rum (B)
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Portuguese}}}
Writing system: Latin alphabet (Portuguese variant)
Official status
Official language of: Angola
Brazil
Cape Verde
East Timor
Equatorial Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Macau (PRC)
Mozambique
Portugal
São Tomé and Príncipe
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In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case) is the case that marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun.
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.com

Introduced 1985
TLD type Generic top-level domain
Status Active
Registry VeriSign
Sponsor None
Intended use Commercial entities (worldwide)
Actual use Used for virtually any commercial or non-commercial website and is generally accepted as the standard
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Dortmund University (German: Universität Dortmund) is a university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 20,000 students, and over 3,000 staff. It is situated in the Ruhr area, the fourth largest urban area in Europe.
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External links

DENIC.

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External links

DENIC.

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A domain name registrar is a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and/or by a national ccTLD authority to register Internet domain names. These "retail" companies are often distinct from the "wholesale" domain name registry operator.
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German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. Whenever a person changes their main place of residence in Germany, or buys a new car, they are required to buy new number plates.
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Deutsche Bahn AG

Private Company
Founded 1 January 1994
Headquarters Berlin, Germany

Key people Hartmut Mehdorn, chairman of the board
Industry Rail transport
Products Rail transport, Cargo transport, Services, more...
Revenue € 25.
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internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese.
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This article is about the top-level domain (TLD). For the second-level domain, see .ac (second level).

.ac

Introduced 1997
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
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.ad

Introduced 1996
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Nic.ad
Sponsor Servei de Telecommunicacions d'Andorra
Intended use Entities connected with
Andorra
Actual use Gets some use in Andorra
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.ae

Introduced 1992
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Nic.ae
Sponsor Etisalat
Intended use Entities connected with
United Arab Emirates
Actual use Very popular in U.A.E.
Registration restrictions Must show I.D.
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.af

Introduced 1997
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry AFGNIC
Sponsor Afghanistan Ministry of Communications
Intended use Entities connected with Afghanistan
Actual use Gets some use in Aghanistan
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.ag

Introduced 1991
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry NicAg
Sponsor None
Intended use Entities connected with
Antigua and Barbuda
Actual use Used largely by companies in German-speaking countries where AG
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.ai

Introduced 1995
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Offshore Information Services
Sponsor Government of Anguilla
Intended use Entities connected with Anguilla
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