Select a category below to get information about price, terms and restrictions, registration details, privacy protection and more for .de domains.
Price
| Type | Price | Learn more |
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| Yearly registration | $7 USD | Buy a domain |
| Fee to restore an expired or removed domain | $15 USD | Restore a domain |
| Terms and restrictions | Details | Learn more |
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| Registrar of record | Key systems | Understand your registrar of record |
| Registry | DENIC | About registries |
| ccTLD | Yes – Germany | Country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state or dependent territory. |
| Restrictions | Yes |
DENIC might request a valid address (not a PO Box) located in Germany from the owner contact.
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| Registration information | Details | Learn more |
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| Expiry | 3 days before | .de domains expire three days before the anniversary date of the registration. |
| Maximum registration period | One year | This is the maximum number of years that you can manually add to your domain registration. |
| Transfer purchase requirement | One year |
To transfer this domain ending, a new 1-year registration is required. This replaces your current registration, and begins when the transfer completes.
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| Transfer authorisation required | No | This indicates if the current registrant requires authorisation to complete a transfer. If so, the current registrant receives a verification email. |
| Auto-renew timing versus expiry date | 15 days before the expiry date | If you have auto-renew turned on, this is the number of days before or after your registration expires that Google Domains attempts to process an auto-renew payment. |
| Auto-renew grace period | Zero days | When you enable auto-renew, this is the number of days after your registration expires that you have to update your payment method until your service is disrupted. |
| Expiry disruption period | Zero days | If you don't have auto-renew turned on and your registration expires, you'll have a certain number of days before your service is disrupted. |
| Renewal grace period | 3 days |
When your domain expires, you have a certain number of days to renew the domain for another year.
For more details about price, go to the price section above.
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| Restoration grace period | 30 days |
After the renewal grace period, you have a certain number of days to restore the domain for another year. After that time, it becomes available to the public for registration.
For more details about price, go to the price section above.
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| Availability wait period | 30 days | When a domain is deleted, you must wait a certain number of days before the domain is available to the public for registration. |
| Privacy information | Details | Learn more |
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| Privacy protection allowed | No |
About privacy protection. Contact information of individuals is hidden from WHOIS by default.
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| Privacy protection provider | N/A | N/A |
| DNS information | Details | Learn more |
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| Domain name supports non-ASCII characters. For example, À, É, Î, or グ. | Yes | IANA Repository of IDN Practices |
| Number of characters in a domain name | 1–63 | The domain name characters can be letters, numbers or a combination of both. The character length applies only to the domain name. It doesn't include the domain ending, such as .com and .net. |
| Number of name servers | 2–13 | Manage domain name servers |
| Supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) | Yes. Keys and name servers must pass validation at the DENIC Nameserver Predelegation Check site. | Use DNSKEY for DNSSEC |
| Algorithm | Yes | Can be: 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 |