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PRESS RELEASE

Dear Sir or Madam,

Effective 19 April 2012, German TLD
.de operator DENIC and the Swedish-based Internet infrastructure organisation
Netnod have entered into a strategic partnership to further strengthen
the .de Name Service. By making use of Netnod’s extensive infrastructure
to complement DENIC’s own worldwide DNS network, DENIC’s operation of
the domain name system for .de, in its role as a crucial resource of the
Internet, will be additionally secured.

The new second foothold will further
minimise potential risks for the .de zone by integrating Netnod’s additional
35+ locations worldwide, this way allowing for rapid response in the case
of a malicious intent. As a surplus benefit, Netnod’s services will provide
a significant capacity upgrade.

“We have chosen Netnod for their outstanding
technical expertise and fully trust their competence to meet the high level
demands associated with the operation of our supplementary name service
for .de, which is by far the biggest ccTLD worldwide. Also, both Netnod
and DENIC are not-for-profit, neutral, and independent basic infrastructure-providing
organisations and share similar strategic positions and views. Therefore,
this partnership ideally matches with DENIC’s commitment to provide services
of utmost reliability, on a self-regulatory basis,” said Dr. Jörg Schweiger,
Member of the Board and CTO of DENIC.

“Netnod is happy to assist DENIC in
enlarging their footprint by offering them the shared use of our widespread
multi-site anycast infrastructure for full backup support of .de, and thus
for the common good of all Internet users. Of course, we are very proud
that after having supported a large variety of European ccTLDs for quite
some time now, .de as the No. 1 ccTLD has chosen us to be their strategic
DNS partner,” said Kurt Erik Lindqvist, CEO of Netnod.

        
About DENIC
DENIC is responsible for managing .de,
Germany’s top-level Internet domain and the world’s second largest Internet
registry with 15,000,000+ domain names. Next to running a 17-site worldwide
name server network, DENIC provides all domain database and registration
system resources for .de and also operates the German ENUM domain (.9.4.e164.arpa),
along with all .de and ENUM related whois lookup services. Since its inception
in 1996, as a private, not-for-profit cooperative, DENIC’s mission is
to fulfil a public purpose by supporting a fast, secure and reliable access
to German Internet pages and e-mail addresses, through the excellence of
its extensive name server infrastructure and services, on a 24/7 basis.
Today, 280+ registrars from the IT and telecommunications industry in Germany
and abroad offer .de registration services and support the independent,
self-regulatory approach of the cooperative as active members. DENIC is
also committed to be a leading force in shaping the continued development
of the open, decentralized and secure Internet, in a close collaborative
effort with international Internet bodies including ICANN, RIPE, IETF,
and CENTR. Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, DENIC employs 120 staff
and has an annual turnover of EUR15m.

Website:        
http://www.denic.de
Contact:        Stefanie
Welters, Public Relations Officer, DENIC eG
         
      presse AT denic.de
         
      +49 69 27235-274


About Netnod
Netnod is a not-for-profit, neutral
and independent Internet infrastructure organisation, based in Sweden and
owned by the TU foundation. Netnod provides DNS anycast and unicast slave
services to TLDs worldwide through its highly respected and robust DNSNODE
product. Netnod is also the proud operator of i.root-servers.net, one of
the thirteen logical DNS root name servers in the world – a critical part
of the Internet underlying infrastructure. This service is provided as
a public service to the Internet community at-large, as part of Netnod’s
goal to work for the “Good of the Internet”. Finally, Netnod operates
six exchanges in five different cities in Sweden where Internet operators
exchange traffic. The Netnod IX has among the highest amount of traffic
per peer in Europe and is fully IPv6 enabled.

Website:        
http://www.netnod.se
Contact:        Kurt-Erik
Lindqvist, CEO, Netnod
         
      kurtis AT netnod.se
         
      +46 8 56286000


Kind regards

Stefanie Welters
Public Relations Officer
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Vorstand: Sabine Dolderer, Helga Krüger, Carsten Schiefner, Dr. Jörg Schweiger
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