Company Profile & Short story about 15 milllion domains

Author: Jörg Schweiger

Location/Date: APTLD meeting, Moscow, June 2012

Overview

· DENIC Portrait - Mission / Organisation

- Numbers / Statistics

- Services

- Policies & Cooperations

DENIC – Mission

• Act as a neutral, non-discriminating and independent registry service provider for the German Internet community

• Operate as an independent not-for-profit service provider

• Guarantee the highest possible level of both quality and technical stability and security

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DENIC – Organisation

• Founded in 1996 as a cooperative

• Members are companies registering.de-domains for their customers, e.g. registrars, ISPs

• Terms and conditions allow fast and easy admission of new members

• Members are treated equally

• Government-independent, not regulated, private not-for-profit

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DENIC - History

Nov 1986 Registration of .de in the IANA database

Dec 1996 Founding of DENIC

Sep 2002 Start of ENUM-Trial

Mar 2004 Start of IDN registration

Dec 2008 Geographically remote mirror data center

2010 First DENIC DNS anycast name service customers

May 2011 DNSSEC Implementation

Domains > 15,000,000 (incl. 600,000 IDNs)

Average new domains per day 3000 Average changes to the registration database per day 3500

Average DNS Queries per day ~ 8 Billion

Average Whois Queries per day: ~ 40 Million

Numbers/Statistics (2012)

Success Factors

· Attractive retail prices, often in combination with service bundles offered by providers

· Diversity of offers from the registrars and service provider satisfying the diverse needs of all customer groups

· Providers selling/claiming a domain to be one’s personal identity/representation in the Internet and .de as the „natural“ TLD for Germans

Number of .de Domains as of 31 May 2012

DENIC – Facts & Figures

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Turnover in K€

Workforce as of 31. December 2011

Membership as of 31. Dec. 2011 (excl. statutory body members)

(109 FTEs)

DENIC – Major Services

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· Operation of name service for .deand ENUM .9.4.e164.arpa

· Operation of automatic registration interface and domain database

· Information services for members, domain holders and internet users, i.e. whois, hotline

· Anycast Name Service for TLD customers

· … all according to Service Level Standards

Name Service – for .de & for you?

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· > 40,000 queries per second

· 17 name server locations worldwide

Leverage the performance and quality of .de according to your needs !

· Everybody (organisations, companies, private persons even from foreign countries) may register any number of .de domains (at least the admin-c must have a postal address in Germany)

· Registration is „First Come – First Served“

· No renewal but indefinite right of usage

· Domains are not directly registered with DENIC, but via „registrars“, e.g. DENIC Members

DENIC – Major Policies

· Active involvement in international bodies toshape the further development of the Internet

· Further development of Internet standards

· Support of the collaboration between the ccTLDs

More than Operation … International Cooperation

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…

Joerg SchweigerDENIC eG

Kaiserstraße 75-7760329 FrankfurtTel. 069-27235-0

E-Mail: info@denic.de

Thank you very much for your attention !

Backup

Backup

DENIC as a registered Cooperative

appoints & oversees 2 accountable directors

General Assembly( ~ 280 members )

Supervisory Board

( 5 members )

DENIC Executive Board( 2 + 2 )

elects

elects 2 honorary members

advises Legal Advisory Council

advises

DENIC ( 100 + FTE )

Technical Advisory Council

Policies (2)

Some major policies – rights

· The registrar is responsible for the domain holder to provide accurate data.

· The domain holder is responsible that his domain doesn‘t infringe on anybody else‘s rights nor is breaking the law DENIC, except for obvious gross infringements, isn‘t responsible to

check rights nor it is responsible for content

· DISPUTE entry on a domain if a third party shows in a credible manner that it possibly have a right on the domain, the domain is set into status „DISPUTE“ . This implies that the domain can’t be transfered to a third party.

Policies (3)

Some major policies – pricing

· All DENIC members are treated the same. They pay the same price for the DENIC services, but are free to establish their prices for the market individually.

· For a domain DENIC members pay an initial registration fee + monthly maintenance fee, all calculated with just cost-recovery in mind.

· No renewal necessary. Once registered a domain exists until explicitly deleted.

How can this be even more interesting for you?

DENIC has been operating its name server infrastructure for over a decade and has a proven excellent track record of availability and response time

We are offering our name server infrastructure to community ccTLD‘s

• based on a cost sharing model decrease expediture

• to serve the community with an independent neutral (pre-)answer gouverment and/or not-for-profit DNS delivery stakeholder inquiries to increase

„security“

• employing high-performance redundant infrastructure reliability

• guaranteed service levels, custom monitoring & quality assurance defined high quality

Let us setup a project to build a name service according to your needs like for example our customers at nic.at and .lu have done.

Primary or Secondary DNS Service

DENIC – Security

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· (IT-) Infrastructure Security

· Anycasted Name Service, 2 geographically remote identical data centers

· Emergency procedures, staff, tests

· National cooperation (CERT-Verbund)

· Information Security

· IS Officer

· ISMS ISO 27001

DENIC – ISMS

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Level of implementation of all normative areas 12/ 2011 12/2012