Tag Archives: .de

Sat 22nd March 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
German Discount Clothing Company Spends 178,500 Euros to Upgrade to KiK.de - German discount clothing company KiK Textilien which operates at Kik-Textilien.de and .com has stepped up the quality of their domain name and purchased Kik.de for 178,500 Euros ($246,223) The domain did belong to another German company KiK Computerausbildung Vertrieb GmbH that company is now currently operating at Kik.eu. Screenshot from Archive.org: According to Wikipedia Kik is the largest discount clothing company in Germany. KiK is the largest textile discounter chain in Germany and operates ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
DENIC doesn’t see most hazard from new TLDs - DENIC downplays threat of new TLDs against .de, citing latest eco survey. eco – the Association of the German Internet Industry released its third Registrar Atlas this week. The Registrar Atlas is a survey of businesses that offer domain names. The non-scientific survey targets mostly Germany, but includes respondents from eight countries primarily in Europe. .De registry DENIC sponsors the survey, along with a number of other registries such as Verisign. DENIC ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Interesting: Regional relapse of .de domain registrations - .De data is a good PR and marketing tool. I must admit that I don’t follow the .de domain market much. I should, since Germany’s ccTLD is the largest country code domain name in existence with over 15 million domain registrations. There are a lot of reasons for .de’s success, and it’s clear that one of its success factors is marketing. Today .de registry DENIC sent a release to me about its latest data on regional registrations. Since 2004 the company has ... read more ...
Wed 31st October 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sedo .uk auction ends tomorrow - Auction timing is a mixed bag. Sedo’s .uk domain name auction featuring 30 .co.uk and .org.uk domain names ends tomorrow. So far three of the thirty domains have received bids and met their reserves. The top domain is moviedatabase.co.uk at 210 GBP. I spot checked five domains and they were all owned by Sedo subsidiary DomCollect, so this appears to be a house auction. On one hand, the timing for the end of this auction couldn’t be better. The company announced ... read more ...
Wed 24th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
China’s .Cn to Quickly Lose Status as Top Country Code Domain Name - From “anything goes” to “nothing goes”, changes to .Cn registration enforcement will reduce the number of .cn domain names. China’s domain name strategy has always perplexed me. For a country known for censoring just about everything, I found it odd that the country was essentially giving away .Cn domain names for about 14 cents. The low cost catapulted China above Germany for the most registered country code top level domain name, a status that China ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sedo 1 and 2 Character .De Domain Name Auction Ends Today - .De auction ends today. Sedo’s one and two character .de domain name “pre-auction” ends at noon Eastern today. .De is the country code for Germany, and is arguably the most successful country code domain name on the web. .De registry DENIC is releasing one and two character domains, as well as other domains that previously were not allowed to be registered (such as those containing only digits). It announced the change on October 15, leaving just a week for ... read more ...