The de-domain has the position as the world’s favourite Country Code TLD, ahead of .uk. The de-domains are also numerically stronger than nearly all the generic Top Level Domains that are used throughout the world, such as .org, .net, .info and .biz. Only one, the com-domain, with almost 103 million domains is more often registered than the de-domain.
Active Deleted New Expired Transfered TLD
102,710,291 335,306,398 113,01 189,752 112,716 .Com
14,729,015 37,367,645 14,658 12,628 13,282 .Net
9,945,604 23,268,174 9,065 6,951 8,661 . Org
8,303,859 15,026,496 10,984 15,911 9,668 .Info
2,228,363 2,957,888 2,515 2,140 1,521 .Biz
1,779,050 2,596,619 1,959 1,820 1,210 . Us
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DENIC is a cooperative with 200 members, who have registered these 11 million de-domains. One of the members is ICANN accredited registrar Secura, owner of the website domainregistry.de.
Visitors, who come to the website http://www.domainregistry.de/... of DENIC member and ICANN accredited Registrar Secura, will have a big surprise: They can watch live the deletions of de-domains. The CEO of Secura, Hans-Peter Oswald, explains:" It's almost like domain television.You see live, how de-domains are going to become free for registration . You see at once in real time all de-domains, which have been deleted by the German Registry, the DENIC."
Then comes the next surprise. If you click at the deleted de-domain, you can order it at once.
The next surprise after this is: There is a second list at http://www.domainregistry.de/... with deleted de-domains, which have a Pagerank equal or greater as "1". The pagerank shows how easy it is in the web to meet a website. The algorithm of the pagerank was created by Google Founder Larry Page, therefore the name "Pagerank".
The de-domain is not totally liberalized, as it seems. Foreign companies and individuals can register also de-domains and sell products and services to the attractive German market by websites, but they must have a German Admin-C. DENIC-Member and ICANN accredited registrar Secura provides automatically this German Admin-C during the registration process.
Hans-Peter Oswald
http://www.domainregistry.de/...