In the course of the past weekend, the domain data of the Internet auction business, ebay.de, was illicitly changed for a short period of time. For a while, the domain was inaccessible. On Saturday morning, news of this unauthorized change reached DENIC. It reacted straight away and, in accord with eBay, restored the domain data to its previous settings. Since Saturday, DENIC has been investigating this incident in detail.

ICANN today announced that, in response to a request for proposals, it has received ten applications for new sponsored top-level domains (sTLD's): .asia, .cat, .jobs, .mail, .mobi, .post, .tel, .travel, .xxx

For two days, 5 and 6 February 2004, the city of Zurich stood at the heart of the German-speaking Internet. More than 150 participants attended the specialist conference, Domain pulse, which was organized jointly by the three registries, DENIC (for .de), nic.at (for .at) and SWITCH (for .ch and .li), and which dealt with topical issues and trends affecting domains and the further development of the Internet.

.name goes from a special interest, third level TLD to a mainstream, second level domain space for individuals, structurally identical to a TLD like .com, on 11:30AM EST on 14 January 2004.

Global Name Registry will open up its second level for registrations at 11:30AM EST on 14 January 2004, meaning names like spike.name, abc.name, pmorgan.name, will be available.

In Germany, numerous people have surnames written with letters with so-called umlauts. They include the Müllers, Jägers and Schröders, and as of 1 March next year they will no longer have to make do with transcribing their surnames as mueller.de, jaeger.de or schroeder.de if they want to use them for Internet domains.

On the agenda for the 31 October 2003 Board meeting is the proposal by RegistryPro, Inc. (the ICANN-designated operator of the .PRO registry) to begin offering domain registration services at the second level in addition to the current offering of .pro registrations at the profession-specific third-level (these are currently law.pro, med.pro, and cpa.pro).

On 15 September 2003, VeriSign deployed a "wildcard" service into the .com and .net Top Level Domain zones.

The german Whois PHP Script tutorial needs to be translated.

The new service bridges the gap between the Internet and telephony - a single number suffices for all services

As a Webservice for Webdeveloper the Whois Serverlist is also available as a XML file.

After a period of stagnation domaininformation.de was completly relaunched.

From July 1st DENIC wants to limit the number of whois requests within a certain timeframe by way of an automatic system, thereby preventing mass requests.

One topic scheduled for discussion at the ICANN Public Forum to be held in Montréal, Canada on Wednesday, 25 June 2003 is a proposal by The Global Name Registry (GNR - the ICANN-designated operator of the .name registry) to begin offering domain registration services at the second level in addition to the current offering of .name registrations at the third-level.

Step necessary to prepare for Domains with special Characters.