2025-12-10 12:57 UTC
@hanno @TimPhSchaefers It’s very surprising to see that NIC .de doesn’t have a reserved second level domain for government sites (like the “.gov” or “.gob” you normally see, “.reg.de” maybe?). The German government buying private domains like a regular Joe is a really weak move. 😝
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@TimPhSchaefers@chaos.social 2025-12-10 13:02
@dmian @hanno there is gov.de and bund.de - but room for improvement ...
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@hallunke23@troet.cafe 2025-12-10 21:31
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