DENIC

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 Service Domain Name System(DNS) as well as registration and management services for .de and ENUM. 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.

DENIC eG
Registered cooperative
IndustryDomain management
Founded1996
HeadquartersFrankfurt am Main, Germany
Key people
  • Jörg Schweiger
    (CEO)
  • Andreas Musielak
    (COO)
  • Thomas Keller
    (Chair of Supervisory Board)
ParentGenossenschaftsverband 
Websitewww.denic.de/ 

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. [1]

Next to managing the German namespace on the Internet, DENIC is actively involved in national and international bodies coordinating the Internet ecosystem. [2]


References
  1. "Who Can Become a DENIC Member?". DENIC.
  2. "DENIC Mission-RFC1591". DENIC.


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