DENIC to release One and Two Letter Domain Names as of October 23rd, 2009

Following an order of a German court, forcing DENIC, the registry operator of the .DE ccTLD to register the two letter domain vw.de, DENIC has now announced that they will open up registration for almost all formerly restricted domains on October 23rd as of 9am CET. The registry says that they have made this decision after talking to other registries that did not have the same restrictions as well as after conducting a number of technical tests.The domains will be registered on a first come first served basis and will be available through DENIC accredited registrars.

The new rules are:

One- and two-digit domains as well as domain names composed exclusively of numerals can now be registered.
Domains identical with combinations of letters that are used for motor-vehicle number plates or for TLDs are released for registration.
A domain may be comprised of the digits 0-9, hyphens, the letters a-z of the Latin alphabet and the other letters listed in the currently valid annex to the Domain Guidelines.
A domain must neither begin nor end with a hyphen. Neither must it have hyphens as both its third and fourth characters.
The minimum length of a domain is one character.
The maximum length of a domain is 63 characters (referred to the ACE-encoded form of the domain) – without .de respectively.

Considering that these modified rules also allow for registration of a domain that equals an existing TLD, this should also mean that DENIC will remove the administrative lock that it had recently placed on domains that matched on of the TLDs introduced over the last few years, such as travel.de, biz.de, info.de and museum.de The lock was basically prohibiting owner changes for any of those domains

Read the full details in DENIC’s Press Release.

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