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Country Information

Complete Name of the Country	Federal Republic of Germany
Population	83 million.
Official Languages	German
Currency	Euro

Germany

ccTLD .DE

Country	Germany
TLD	.de
Name of registry	DENIC eG - DENIC Domain Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG (German Network Information Centre)
Website of registry	http://www.denic.de/
Original Control of Registry	Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe (IRB) of Dortmund university
Control of Registry (Current)	German Network Information Centre
Type of Organization	Non for profit cooperative
Date ccTLD was created	November the 5th 1986
Number of reg. domains	15,380,105 (as of 1 Jan. 2013)
2013 Avg. # of registrations / mth	50,000
Number of Registrars Accredited	284
Liberation Important dates
Liberation Progress	The administrative contact must be in Germany. Note: a P.O box is not enough. It needs to have a physical address.

Rules

•	Standard Sub Domains immediately before the .ccTLD none
•	Private Customers allowed? yes
•	Domains per applicant unlimited
•	Approximate Processing time intra-day, near real-time
•	Preconditions Summary If applicant is not registered in Germany (corporation/legal entity) or is not a German resident (natural person), a person authorized to receive service of legal processes on you behalf (a German resident) must be given with their address acting as "admin-c"

Additional Information

•	Paper application Required? NO
•	Automat. Protocol? Email Template
•	Trade Mark Particular Process? A contact in Germany is required always
•	Semantic Control? geographic abbreviations used on German road-vehicle number plates
•	Minimum Length of domain name 3
•	Maximum Length of domain name 63
•	Registration through Registrars Available YES
•	Direct Registration Available YES

Summary

The German registry agency is the DENIC: “German Network Information Centre,” a not-for-profit cooperative established in 1997. Its membership is comprised of companies and institutions who administer domains for their customers and who feel an active commitment to providing, within the principles of self-regulation, a key service for the whole German Internet Community - namely, operation of the registry for the German Top Level Domain .de. Registration of the .de ccTLD is open for everyone, However, if the applicant is not registered in Germany (corporation/legal entity) or is not a German resident (natural person), a person authorized to receive service of legal processes on you behalf (a German resident) must be given with their address acting as "admin-c". Today, there are more than 8.359.807 registered domain names under the Top Level Domain .de. Every month, an average of about 50,000 .de domains is registered. This numbers make the .de ccTLD the second most popular after the famous .com. The ccTLD .de was established by the Internic on November the 5th 1986 and was first managed by the “Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe” (IRB) of Dortmund University.

Registration Highlights

• Only Condition for Registration: To have an Administrative contact in Germany.

• No Paper Application Required

• No geographic abbreviations are allowed