8 Million de-Domains

DENIC, the registry of the German Top Level Domain (TLD) has announced that it has been asked a million eight for the de-registration of a domain. The de-domain has the world's favorite position, Country Code TLD, ahead of. United Kingdom, which has about 3.7 million records. The domains are also numerically stronger than nearly all generic top level domains that are used worldwide, such as. Org,. Net,. Info biz and. Only one of the com-domain with more than 30 million domains is more often registered than the de-domain.

October 2004

. Of 7,981,014 (an increase compared to last month: 89 793)

. A 367 987 (increase from last month: 4,766)

Com. 31,017,772 (an increase compared to last month: 750 631)

. 4,999,073 Net (increase compared to last month: 88 952)

. 3138 Org. 385 (increase from last month: 37 607)

. 1.919 Info. 331 (increase from last month: 683 846)

. Biz 1,041,432 (increase from last month: 13 118)

. We 881 411 (increase from last month: 6,395)

The de-domain is not fully liberalized, it seems. Foreign companies and individuals can also register domains and sell products and services for the German market attractive web sites, but must have a German Admin-C. DENIC-Member and ICANN accredited registrar Secura provides automatically the German Admin-C during the registration process.