On 12 January 2011, 10:00 CET, the central German registry DENIC is going to make available nine short domains for registration which were previously blocked due to temporary injunctions: dw.de, e.de, f.de, g.de, hr.de, sr.de, x.de, y.de and z.de. Registration will be made applying DENIC’s standard “first come, first served” principle. Since the number of available domains is extremely limited, DENIC will use a special procedure: Applicants will have to submit requests by fax to fax numbers established for this particular purpose

The German country code Top Level Domain passed the 14 million registrations mark Monday cementing its position as the world’s largest.

Registrants will be able to register .DE domain names that include the “ß” character, DENIC have announced. A sunrise period will commence on 26 October 2010 at 15:00 CEST that will allow holders of domains containing the character set “ss” will be granted special registration rights that expire on 16 November 2010, 10:00 CET. The change comes about as a result of DENIC abolishing the rule that forbids the Latin small letter sharp “s” to be used as an independent character in .DE domain names as of 16 November

[news release] On its website, a specific interface exists which provides any user access to a tool for independently checking domain delegations in the way they are automatically verified by default by the DENIC registration system. This tool facilitates the delegation of second level domains under the German TLD .de

[news release] A whole kaleidoscope of hot topics and questions all around the protocol extension DNSSEC and the persistent great interest of the Internet community made the third .de DNSSEC testbed meeting at the premises of DENIC another success. With roughly 60 attendants from the Internet industry and Internet associations a diversified forum of users and providers of services and hard- and software tools supporting DNSSEC met in the offices of DENIC to be informed about the latest developments for combating DNS spoofing, cache poisoning and zone walking and to use the opportunity for networking.

[news release] The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” enters the decisive phase: As from 2 March 2010 DENIC gives also second level domains under .de the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record the related key material. In this process, DENIC initially registers the Key Signing Keys used as Trust Anchor, and then publishes the corresponding DS records in the .de zone accessible in the testbed. Thus, for the first time, the participants in the testbed will receive DNSSEC-secured responses for the second level domains involved

The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” has entered a decisive phase: as of 2 March 2010 DENIC has given all second level domains under .DE the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record their experiences.

DENIC have allowed the registration of the two-letter domain name BR.DE. The domain was excluded from the release of two-character domains affected in autumn 2009.