DeNIC used to have a policy that 2-letter domains and any domain that matches a license plate code is unavailable. Problem with that: VW sued against that policy because they wanted to register vw.de and won, so DeNIC had to abandon the policy. Now all the domain names that match license plate codes (which were supposed to be used by the district administrations) are in the hands of random people. @dmian @hanno @TimPhSchaefers