.de is the country code top-level domain A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country (a sovereign state or a dependent territory) (ccTLD) for the Federal Republic of Germany Germany (pronounced /ˈdʒɜrməni/ ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south. DENIC DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany (the Network Information Centre A domain name registry, is a database of all domain names registered in a top-level domain. A registry operator, also called a Network Information Center , is the part of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that keeps the database of domain names, and generates the zone files which convert domain names to IP addresses. Each NIC is an responsible for .de domains) does not require specific second-level domains In the Domain Name System hierarchy, a second-level domain (SLD) is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain (TLD). For example, in example.com, example is the second-level domain of the .com TLD, as it is the case with the .uk .uk is the Internet country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom. As of July 2008, it is the fifth most popular top-level domain worldwide (after .com, .cn, .de and .net), with over 7 million registrations domain range for example.

The name is based on the first two letters of the German German (Deutsch, [ˈdɔʏtʃ] ) is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Globally, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by about 80 million non-native speakers name for Germany (Deutschland). Prior to 1989, East Germany had a separate ISO 3166-1 ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: code (dd), and had a largely inactive ccTLD, .dd DD was the ISO 3166-1 code for the German Democratic Republic , the letters coming from the German name of the country: Deutsche Demokratische Republik. In accordance with IANA policy, .dd was therefore available to be assigned as the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for East Germany. However, this was never done, and so .dd was never added

.de is currently the second most popular ccTLD in terms of number of registrations, after .cn .cn is the country code top-level domain for the People's Republic of China, and is third after .com The domain name com is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for networks of general commercial character and .cn .cn is the country code top-level domain for the People's Republic of China among all TLDs. [1][2]

The first point of registration for .de domains was at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Dortmund Dortmund University of Technology is a university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 20,000 students, and over 3,000 staff. It is situated in the Ruhr area, the fourth largest urban area in Europe. uni-dortmund.de was among the first registered .de-domains.

.de registrations may be directly ordered from DENIC DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany but it is faster and cheaper to do so via a DENIC DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany member (registrar A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or by a national country code top-level domain (ccTLD) authority, to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries and offer such).

As of 23 October 2009, DENIC allowed the registration of single- and two-letter domains as well as number-only domains[3].

Registrations of internationalized domain names An internationalized domain name is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Chinese, Russian or the Latin-based languages with diacritics, such as French. These writing systems are encoded by computers in multi-byte are also accepted so that all diacritics of German Although the diacritic letters represent distinct sounds in German phonology, they are almost universally not considered part of the alphabet. Almost all German speakers consider the alphabet to have the 26 cardinal letters above and will name only those when asked to say the alphabet.[citation needed] may be used.[4] The eszett, ß The letter ß is a ligature in the German alphabet typically used to replace a double "s" in a word. Its German name is Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt], lexicalized expression for sz) or scharfes S (sharp S), and is pronounced as an unvoiced s (IPA: [s]), cannot be registered, however, as existing internet infrastructure will automatically replace it with ss in any web address.

In many of the Romance languages extinct: Anatolian · Paleo-Balkans (Dacian, , e.g., Spanish Countries where Spanish has official status. States of the U.S. where Spanish has no official status but is spoken by 25% or more of the population. States of the U.S. where Spanish has no official status but is spoken by 10-20% of the population. States of the U.S. where Spanish has no official status but is spoken by 5-9.9% of the population, French French is a Romance language globally spoken by about 110 million people as a first language (mother tongue), by 190 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant numbers of speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where the language, Romanian Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə] ) or Daco-Romanian is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status in Romania, Republic of Moldova, and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. In the Republic of and Portuguese Portuguese ( português or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the Celtici and the Conii) around 2000 years ago. It spread worldwide in the 15th, "de" expresses the genitive In grammar, the genitive case is the case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships other than possession; certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case; and it may have adverbial uses (see Adverbial genitive). Modern English does of a noun (like "of" in English). This is exploited in domain registrations under the German TLD for romance language webhosts A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can that offer customized sites, like elforo.de (theforum.of), cleverly encoding the site name into the URL In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions it is often incorrectly used as a synonym for URI, the best-known example of which is the path, such as elforo.de/wikipedia, meaning theforum.of/wikipedia.

References

  1. ^ Domain Names Registered Under ".CN" by CNNIC The China Internet Network Information Center , or CNNIC, was founded as a non-profit organization on June 3, 1997
  2. ^ Comparison of international Domain Numbers by DENIC DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany
  3. ^ "DENIC eG Eases Domain Guidelines". DENIC DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany. http://www.denic.de/en/denic-in-dialog/news/2413.html?cHash=6b637f147f.
  4. ^ "IDN character list". DENIC DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany. 2004-03-01. http://www.denic.de/en/domains/idns/liste.html. Retrieved 2008-08-13.

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ICANN ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, United States, ICANN is a non-profit corporation that was created on September 18, 1998 and incorporated September 30, 1998 in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S's country code top-level domains A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country (a sovereign state or a dependent territory)

.ac .ac is the Internet country code top-level domain for Ascension Island. It is administered by NIC.AC, a subsidiary of the Internet Computer Bureau based in the United Kingdom .ad .ad is the Internet country code top-level domain for Andorra. It is administered by Servei de Telecomunicacions d'Andorra .ae .ae is the Internet country code top-level domain for the United Arab Emirates. It is administered by .aeDA which is part of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) .af .af is the Internet country code top-level domain for Afghanistan. It is administered by AFGNIC, a service of the UNDP and the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan .ag .ag is the Internet country code top-level domain for Antigua and Barbuda .ai .ai is the Internet country code top-level domain for Anguilla. It is administered by the government of Anguilla .al .al is the Internet country code top-level domain for Albania. It is administered by the Electronic and Postal Communications Authority of Albania .am .am is the Internet country code top-level domain for Armenia .an .an is the Internet country code top-level domain for Netherlands Antilles. It is administered by the University of the Netherlands Antilles. As the Netherlands Antilles are due to be abolished by 2010, the future of the .an top-level domain is uncertain. There are, however, over 800 domains registered under .an (directly or at third level), .ao .ao is the Internet country code top-level domain for Angola. It is administered by the college of engineering of the University of Agostinho Neto .aq .aq is the Internet country code top-level domain for Antarctica. It is reserved for organizations that conduct work in Antarctica or promote the Antarctic and Southern Ocean regions. It is administered by Peter Mott of Mott and Associates of Auckland, New Zealand .ar .ar is the Internet country code top-level domain for Argentina. It is administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina .as .as is the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa. It is administered by AS Domain Registry .at .at is the Internet country code top-level domain for Austria. It is administered by NIC.AT[citation needed] .au .au is the Internet country code top-level domain for Australia .aw .aw is the Internet country code top-level domain for Aruba. It is administered by SETAR .ax .ax is the Internet country code top-level domain of the Åland Islands, introduced in 2006. Previously, most Åland websites were under the .aland.fi subdomain .az .ba .bb .bd .be .bf .bg .bh .bi .bj .bm .bn .bo .br .bs .bt .bw .by .bz .ca .cc .cd .cf .cg .ch .ci .ck .cl .cm .cn .co .cr .cu .cv .cx .cy .cz .de .dj .dk .dm .do .dz .ec .ee .eg .er .es .et .eu .fi .fj .fk .fm .fo .fr .ga .gd .ge .gf .gg .gh .gi .gl .gm .gn .gp .gq .gr .gs .gt .gu .gw .gy .hk .hm .hn .hr .ht .hu .id .ie .il .im .in .io .iq .ir .is .it .je .jm .jo .jp .ke .kg .kh .ki .km .kn .kp .kr .kw .ky .kz .la .lb .lc .li .lk .lr .ls .lt .lu .lv .ly .ma .mc .md .me .mg .mh .mk .ml .mm .mn .mo .mp .mq .mr .ms .mt .mu .mv .mw .mx .my .mz .na .nc .ne .nf .ng .ni .nl .no .np .nr .nu .nz .om .pa .pe .pf .pg .ph .pk .pl .pn .pr .ps .pt .pw .py .qa .re .ro .rs .ru .rw .sa .sb .sc .sd .se .sg .sh .si .sk .sl .sm .sn .sr .st .su .sv .sy .sz .tc .td .tf .tg .th .tj .tk .tl .tm .tn .to .tr .tt .tv .tw .tz .ua .ug .uk .us .uy .uz .va .vc .ve .vg .vi .vn .vu .wf .ws .ye .za .zm .zw


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