Germany’s .DE Approaching Another Milestone : 16 Million .DE Domain Names

DENIC, the company behind .DE extension is approaching another milestone: 16 million domain name registrations under .DE.The company achieved the 15,5 millionth milestone in 2012.

DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain name on 26 November 2010 and the 15 millionth .de domain name on April 18,2012.This means that in less than six months, almost 500,000 .DE domain names were registered .

There are 15,872,643 .DE domains registered up to date,according to the most recent figures on DENIC’s website.

The annual average growth rate of the recent years has been about 1 million domain names,which is an impressive number .Moreover,at the end of October/beginning of November 2010,domain growth gained particular momentum through the introduction of the special character eszett, ß .

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