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Dear Sir or Madam,

Effective 3 December 2013, DENIC will
shut down their Domain Check (DCHK) lookup service which was in place so
far to check out the mere registration status of a .DE domain, thus if
such domain was registered yet or not.

Given that the protocol underlying DCHK,
i.e. the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) standard, has never
gained a relevant foothold in the market, and therefore DCHK kept being
employed by a small number of users only, continuing the service is no
longer justifiable, from a cost-benefit point of view.

In the future, all status information
concerning .DE domains may further be accessed comfortably via DENIC's
web-whois service, at http://www.denic.de/en/domains/whois-service/web-whois.html.

DENIC asks for the kind understanding
of all users being affected by the DCHK shutdown.


Kind regards

Stefanie Welters
Public Relations
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