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Country code top-level domain for Germany October 2023 .de Logo DENIC.svg 1986 11 5 yes Country code top-level domain Active DENIC DENIC eG Entities connected with Germany Overwhelmingly popular in Germany and gets some use overseas, also used for domain hacks (e.g. alongsi.de) 17,639,014 2025-03-31 2024-04-02 DENIC https://www.denic.de/en/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20240402170210/https://www.denic.de/en/ 2024-04-02 2024-04-02 DENIC None May register at second level DISPUTE-Entries denic.de Yes .de is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Germany. DENIC (the Network Information Centre responsible for .de domains) does not require specific second-level domains, and there are no official ccSLDs under .de ccTLD, as it is the case with the .uk domain range which until 2014 required .co.uk domain for example. Namesake The name is based on the first two letters of the German name for Germany (Deutschland). Prior to 1990, East Germany had a separate ISO 3166-1 code (dd), and had never delegated a ccTLD, .dd. Usage .de is currently the second most popular ccTLD in terms of number of registrations with .cn being the first most popular ccTLD and .uk being third. It is third after .com and .cn among all TLDs.DENIC DENIC Comparison of International Domain Numbers https://www.denic.de/en/know-how/statistics/monthly-analytics-international-domains/ September 2018 2018-10-29 29 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181029191836/https://www.denic.de/en/know-how/statistics/monthly-analytics-international-domains/ dead The first point of registration for .de domains was at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Dortmund. uni-dortmund.de was among the first registered .de-domains. .de registrations may be directly ordered from DENIC but it is faster and cheaper to do so via a DENIC member (registrar).August 2015 Registration Previously, domain names had to be at least three letters long. There were a few two-letter domains registered before the rule was put in place: db.de (Deutsche Bahn, German Railways), ix.de (the German computing magazine iX), and hq.de. Another domain, bb.de (Bilfinger Berger), was later deregistered (and after 2009 registered by another company). As a result of a lawsuit by Volkswagen, which wanted to register the two-letter domain "vw.de",2013-06-14 Daniel Dingeldey 2008-06-26 DENIC muss vw.de an Volkswagen vergeben http://www.domain-recht.de/domain-recht/sonstiges-domain-recht/urteil-denic-muss-vw-de-an-volkswagen-vergeben-11382.html domain-recht after 23 October 2009, DENIC was forced to allow the registration of single- and two-letter domains as well as number-only domains, such as 123.de, xx.de or v.de.https://www.denic.de/en/whats-new/press-releases/article/denic-eg-eases-domain-guidelines/ DENIC eG Eases Domain Guidelines DENIC Registrations of internationalized domain names (IDN) are also accepted so that all diacritics of German, many diacritics of other languages and the eszett, ß, may be used.https://www.denic.de/en/know-how/idn-domains#code-195-0 IDN character list DENIC In many of the Romance languages, e.g., Spanish, French, Romanian and Portuguese, "de" expresses the genitive of a noun (like "of" in English). This is exploited in domain registrations under the German TLD for romance language webhosts that offer customized sites, like elforo.de (theforum.of), encoding the site name into the URL path, such as elforo.de/wikipedia, meaning theforum.of/Wikipedia. .dd In accordance with IANA policy, .dd would have been available to be assigned in the root nameservers as the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for East Germany. Its only use was internally in an isolated network among the universities of Jena and Dresden.Information site about .dd in German With the reunification of Germany, East Germany became part of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), which had already been assigned the ccTLD .de. The ISO 3166-1 code "DD" was withdrawn in 1990.Changes in ISO 3166-1 (annotated summary of RIPE documents) See also Internet in Germany .ag .eu –ccTLD for the European Union Generic geographic domains, connected to Germany .bayern .berlin .hamburg .nrw .koeln / .cologne .ruhr .saarland References External links DENIC List of DENIC members IANA .de whois information DNSSEC in the .de Zone Internet in Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Internet in Germany Category:Internet properties established in 1986 Category:Mass media in Germany Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Category:1986 establishments in West Germany sv:Toppdomän#D