04|18|2012 11:54 am EDT
As per a press release sent out by DENIC, the German .DE registry operator, the 15th million .DE domain was registered today at 12:56pm central European time. The domain was “floristennetzwerk.de” (which translates to FloristNetwork.de).
See the full press release after the jump.
02|23|2012 01:28 pm EDT
Denic e.G., the German registry operator for .DE, has published a new image video on Youtube yesterday.
The German version of the video has attracted a large number of negative comments to date – what do you think of the video?
01|09|2011 11:03 am EDT
On January 12, 2011 at 10:00 CET (4am EST), the German Network Information Center, DENIC, will release nine domains for registration:
The domains are being released following the lifting of a cease and desist that resulted in a temporary injunction.
Requests will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis and only via fax. All requests must be submitted using a request form specific to the domain. The form must be faxed to a fax number designated for each domain. Each fax number will be available for a limited 30-minute period. Request forms, fax numbers, and a schedule of fax times are available from DENIC’s Web site.
Each request must be completed accurately and signed properly for it to be accepted. Those requests not completed properly and signed will be rejected. Domains will be released to the first respondents who accurately complete and fax their request.
A limit of one page per fax transmission will be accepted. Respondents should refrain from using a cover page as this will result in a loss of all transmitted pages beyond the first page. A line will be available for test faxes 24 hours prior to the domain release. The number for this test line is: +49 69 24248559
Those respondents with successful domain requests will receive written notification by letter or fax. Respondents must communicate with the DENIC Cooperative administrator by January 26, 2011 who will transfer the domain to the registrant’s registrar of choice. otherwise the domain will be managed by DENICdirect.
DNN previously reported on the first release of short .DE domains in 2009.
12|02|2010 11:12 am EDT
05|13|2010 03:06 am EDT
According to TLD Source and The Register large parts of the .DE zone file went missing today from 1:30 pm to roughly 2:50 pm. The error shut down potentially over 13 million domains names tied to websites and email addresses using the German domain name extension.
Speculation to the cause of the outage centers around the theory that the zone files may have been uploaded with no data. TLD Source also speculates on their site that the DENIC infrastructure may be outdated .
DENIC acknowledged the problem on their site (German) and will be providing more details. In a statement on another mailing list found cited by The Register, DENIC stated : “Several of the authoritative nameservers for the DE top level domain returned NXDOMAIN responses for a yet to be determined number of DE domains that existed in our registration database,” the post reads. “At [13:45 UTC], all affected servers had either been disabled or fed with an earlier version of the DE zone. Regular operations were eventually resumed at 15:00 UTC.”
Last October, a similar problem occurred when a typo shut down the .SE ccTLD for roughly 20 minutes.
10|22|2009 01:26 pm EDT
After technical difficulties during before the Sedo auctions for the newly released and previously blocked .DE domain names (we reported last Friday) the company has now split the ending times for the auctions as follows:
[Update] Sedo is continously extending their auctions now, even beyond those times stated above.
03|17|2009 08:49 am EDT
Sedo announced this morning (no official link yet) that it has brokered the sale of a domain portfolio of 475 domains for 2.38 Million Euro (approximately 3.1m USD). The domains were sold by Hassler & Mair GmbH, operators of a former German ISP (profi.net). This constitutes one of the biggest published sale of a .DE portfolio. The buyer, DomCollect Worldwide Intellectual Property AG, a Swiss based company, is 100% owned by the broker, Sedo and holds over 100,000 domains in its domain portfolio. According to attendees, the sale took place before DomainPulse, which took place on February 12/13 in Dresden Germant. The sale was mentioned at the event.
The portfolio contained names such as wertpapiere.de (=securities), devisen.de (=foreign currency) and lohnsteuer.de (=income tax). The full list of domains has not been published. Apparently the seller still owns names like zeitung.de (= Newspaper in German), sterne.de (Stars) and other premium German domain names. Some of their names also appear to be parked with Sedo.
[Update] A partial list of the domains that may have been part of the purchase (they were all added the night the purchase was completed, so a few of them may have potentially been purchased elsewhere) after the jump. (more…)
12|19|2008 08:06 am EDT
Pool.com has just added the .DE ccTLD to their backorder services. Their site currently lists about 1,600 .de domains that will be expiring as of January 23rd.
It appears that the list only contains names that are in “TRANSIT” state at this point, which means that the registrar has handed the domains back to the registry after the original owner did not renew the names. For domains that are in TRANSIT, the registry operator DENIC will try to invoice the registrant directly at a higher rate and delete the domain if the registrant does not respond – so this state could be loosely compared to the redemption period for other domains.
In order to see the list of Domains Pool.com will be offering for backorder, either download their full list of upcoming domains, or go to the “Deleting Domains” page, check the .DE TLD on the bottom left and click on search. Since none of them are expiring within the next 5 days, you will have to click on “View All Domains” on the following screen.
Only few registries actually publish a list of expiring domains and DENIC does not publish an official list.
11|17|2008 09:17 pm EDT
Starting in December 2008, DENIC, the .de registry operator will start offering authorization codes for domain transfers within their ccTLD. Initially the new functionality will co-exist with the old asynchronous system, a date for phasing the old system out was not announced.
[via netdynamic (German), DENIC press release (German)]
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