.DE turns 25
Twenty-five doesn’t seem all that experienced, until you put it in Internet years. Twenty-five years ago I was alternately playing “Oregon Trail” on an Apple IIE and sneaking glances at the cover of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.” I hadn’t heard a thing about the “World Wide Web.” She’d yet to be Googled. Twenty-five years ago […]
Twenty-five doesn’t seem all that experienced, until you put it in Internet years. Twenty-five years ago I was alternately playing “Oregon Trail” on an Apple IIE and sneaking glances at the cover of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.” I hadn’t heard a thing about the “World Wide Web.”
Twenty-five years ago Germany was still divided by the Berlin Wall. But it was back then, back when I had to go to an actual store to get my Madonna tape, when the German country code .DE* was included in the official list of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
It was November 5, 1986 to be exact, and now, about 100,000 times per second, an Internet address ending with .DE is called up from somewhere in the world.
Stefanie Welters, Public Relations for DENIC eG, the organization behind .DE, writes that .DE is the, “Largest country code TLD (Top-Level Domain) with more than 14.6 million registered domains – more than 7 billion name server queries per day – elected TLD with best brand image by the Internet community: a fairytale balance!”
We can make it even better. Name.com offers .DE to customers outside of the region. You don’t have to live in Germany to register a .DE domain. That’s great news, especially considering that right now there are about 3,000 new .DE addresses added every day.
According to Welters, “Only the generic TLD .COM scores higher than .DE with 97.6 million registered domains.”
That’s some pretty awesome coverage, and totally deserved for a domain extension that’s been around longer than most people have known about the “Internet.”
*If you were wondering the name originates from Deutschland, the German name for Germany.
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