It is a precondition that either the holder or the administrator are based in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The naming regulations for .de domains largely correspond to the usual standards. You can find the details on the naming conventions page.

No, the name to register will be located directly in front of the ending ».de«.

Since December 3, 2013, DENIC puts its domains in a »Redemption Grace Period« for 30 days after deleting them. During this time, the domain name cannot be registered by others; it can only be reactivated by the previous holder.

In order to reactivate a domain that has been deleted, use the document generator of Knipp. Simply enter the domain name and select »Domain restore« as the type of document.

There are four different types of contacts:

You can use our award-winning Domain Registration System to easily make changes online. You'll need a user account and password to login, of course. If you do not have an account by now, you can create one in only a few steps.

Yes, since there will be a function check. The domain registration will be executed even if the name servers should not satisfy the technical requirements. But the registration will be canceled if no successful function check of the name servers is accomplished within 4 weeks. The costs for the registration will not be refunded in this case.

When a registrar change (or »Konnektivitäts-Koordination« as it is called for .de domains) is being performed on a domain, the losing registrar has to give his approval for the transaction. This acknowledgement (»ACK«) has to be given within 5 days.

A refusal is possible as well, of course. After a rejection within the settled period (»negative acknowledge«, or »NACK«) the request for the change of the registrar can be started again, for example because there are legal documents available which have been missing before.

In order to reduce the costs for this procedure, the »LATEACK«-mechanism was introduced. It is a possibility to retroactively acknowledge a previously rejected transaction.

If you want to transfer a domain to Knipp and the current registrar sends a rejection, then you can simply restart the change of the registrar. No extra costs arise for you as a customer of Knipp.

Another possibility is that the current registrar sends a LATEACK instead. If you want to transfer a domain from Knipp to another registrar, the LATEACK mechanism is currently not being supported. The gaining registrar has to restart the transfer.

For the domain, two relations arise:

Normally, the customer and the holder of a domain are the same person. If you act as a reseller, however, this may be different.

In addition to that, there can be further legal relations, e.g. for operating a web server. This has to be kept separated from the domain registration, although these services are often closely linked to each other.

For inquiries like this we have set up a comfortable Whois service for you.

For generic top level domains, i.e. .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .name domains, there is the so-called »Whois Data Reminder Policy« which shall ensure the actuality of the Whois data. The registrants have to be called upon to check the momentarily recorded data and update it, if necessary. For .de domains or other country code TLDs a procedure like this is not officially required.

The informations about the contacts should always be kept up-to-date. You can comfortably manage this with our Domain Registration System. Wrong specifications can, in the worst case, lead to the loss of the domain.