DENIC
 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification.(November 2019) |
 | |
 | |
| Company type | Eingetragene Genossenschaft(registeredcooperative) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Domain management |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Frankfurt am Main,Germany |
Key people |
|
| Parent | Genossenschaftsverband |
DENIC eGis the manager of the.dedomain, thecountry-codetop-level domainfor 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 andENUM.Besides thewhoislookup service for.de domains, its portfolio further includesDNSanycastservices forregistriesand data escrow services for both registries andregistrarsof 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 entityworldwide.[1]
Next to managing the German namespace on the Internet, DENIC is actively involved in national and international bodies coordinating the Internet ecosystem.[2]
Rüdiger Volk at the University of Dortmund started to administer the.de domain in 1988, and introduced the name "de-NIC".[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^"Who Can Become a DENIC Member?".DENIC.
- ^"DENIC Mission-RFC1591".DENIC.
- ^Missing Link: Der Herr der Routen - vom funktionierenden Netz und den Grundlagen,heise online, 2020-12-06.
- ^About DENIC. How it all Started: The Birth of.de and the Founding of the Cooperative,denic, accessed: 2020-12-06.
External links[edit]
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
 | This article about an IT-related or software-related company or corporation is astub.You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |