DENIC,responsible of the administration of .DE extension ,is approaching 14,500,000 domain name registrations under .DE .
This number makes .DE one of the largest ccTLDs when one looks at the number of domain names registered per person.
DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain name on 26 November 2010 .So,in less than seven months, almost 500,000 .DE domain names were registered .
Every six inhabitants of the German Republic has registered a .de domain name and the number is constantly growing .
The annual average growth rate of the recent years has been about 1 million domain names,which is an impressive number .Moreover,at the end of October/beginning of November 2010,domain growth gained particular momentum through the introduction of the special character eszett, ß .
Up to date,there are 14,447,332 .de domain name registrations .