8 Million de-domains

DENIC, the registry of the German Top Level Domain (TLD) has
announced, that it has received the eight millionth application
for the registration of a de-domain. The de-domain has the
position as the world's favourite Country Code TLD, ahead of
.uk, which has about 3.7 million registrations. 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 thecom-domain with more than 30
million domains is more often registered than the de-domain.

October 2004 .de 7.981.014 (Increment compared to one month ago:
89.793) .at 367.987 (Increment compared to one month ago: 4.766)
.com 31.017.772 (Increment compared to one month ago: 750.631)
.net 4.999.073 (Increment compared to one month ago: 88.952)
.org 3.138.385 (Increment compared to one month ago: 37.607)
.info 1.919.331 (Increment compared to one month ago: 683.846)
.biz 1.041.432 (Increment compared to one month ago: 13.118) .us
881.411 (Increment compared to one month ago: 6.395)

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.