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| Company type | Eingetragene Genossenschaft (registeredcooperative) |
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| Industry | Domain management |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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| Parent | Genossenschaftsverband  |
DENIC eG is the manager of the.de domain, thecountry-codetop-level domain for Germany.It was founded in 1996 and is organised as a non-regulated not-for-profitcooperative. DENIC provides theDomain Name System (DNS) as well as registration and management services for .de and .9.4.e164.arpaENUM.[1] Besides thewhois lookup service for .de domains, its portfolio further includesDNSanycast services forregistries and data escrow services for both registries andregistrars of the domain industry.
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 orlegal 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]
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