DENIC
Manager of the .de domain for Germany
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DENIC eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany. It was founded in 1996 and is organised as a non-regulated not-for-profit cooperative. DENIC provides the Domain Name System (DNS) as well as registration and management services for .de and .9.4.e164.arpa ENUM.[1] Besides the whois lookup service for .de domains, its portfolio further includes DNS anycast services for registries and data escrow services for both registries and registrars of the domain industry.
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| Company type | Eingetragene Genossenschaft (registered cooperative) |
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| Industry | Domain management |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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| Parent | Genossenschaftsverband  |
The DENIC Cooperative has more than 300 members, 25 percent of them based in other countries than Germany. .de domains can be registered by any individual or legal entity worldwide.[2]
Next to managing the German namespace on the Internet, DENIC is actively involved in national and international bodies coordinating the Internet ecosystem.[3]
Rüdiger Volk at the University of Dortmund started to administer the .de domain in 1988, and introduced the name "de-NIC".[4][5]
