908 .DE domain names have been registered in the first day of 2012,according to the most recent figures on the DENIC website .
Even though there were 908 .DE domains registered, 1.114 .DE domains have been dropped today .According to the most recent figures on the DENIC website,there are 14.740.903 .DE domains to date..DE holds the first rank among the ccTLDs,followed by .UK and .NL .
DENIC celebrated its 25th anniversary on November 5,2011.
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 .