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*PRESS RELEASE*

Redemption Grace Period for .DE name
space kicking off in early December

New cooling off phase to prevent
unintentional domain loss

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Effective 3 December 2013, the managing
organization and central registry operator of the .DE top level domain,
DENIC, will launch a dedicated cooling off service (called Redemption Grace
Period – RGP) which shall apply for all second-level domain names in the
.DE name space. This procedure shall protect registrants against an unintentional
loss of their domain(s), as a result of accidental deletion.

Under the RGP scheme, .DE domain names
shall no longer be irretrievably lost, following deletion, but instead
initially enter a subsequent 30-day cooling-off phase, during which they
may solely be re-registered on behalf of their former registrant(s).

RGP cooling-off provisions shall allow
former registrants to redeem registration of the subject domain names,
by having recourse to the related Restore service, through a registrar.
Only if no redemption is requested, during the 30-day RGP phase, the relevant
domain names shall become available for registration by any interested
party again. At the time being, similar regulations are applied by other
top level domain registries already.

Registrars redeeming a deleted .DE domain
name for the original registrant will have to pay a Restore fee and may
pass on the related costings.

Deleted .DE domain names placed in cooling
off, from RGP implementation, will be earmarked by a redemption period
status in the DENIC lookup services (whois) accessible at www.denic.de.

As a consequence of the above measures,
the current DENIC .DE domain guidelines shall be superseded by new, amended
ones from the date of RGP launch, i.e. 3 December 2013, which shall then
be permanently published at http://www.denic.de/en/domains/general-information/domain-guidelines.html.


Kind regards

Stefanie Welters
Public Relations
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