About DEdomain.name!
Welcome to DEdomain.name, the searchable domain database of German domain extensions. Here you will find domain for sale from all sources, including domain sales history, domain sales comparisons and domain sales comparables, domain auction results, and domain name resources as well as general domain information and tools.
All sales are displayed in chronological order, with the most recent sale first. Each result includes the domain name and extension, as well as the price it sold for and the date. If the domain was sold during an auction, it will be indicated accordingly.
Market for Premium dot-DE Domains
Germans may be better known for their huge consumption of beer and sausage, but they are among the world’s top ‘consumers’ of Internet domain names. In absolute numbers, Germany is the second largest domain maket in the world, after the united states.
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Did you know that dot DE is the most popular ccTLD in the aftermarket for domain names?
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Sales of pre-owned domain names ending in the German extension – dot DE – were up 43% in 2009, according to a study on the secondary domain market released in November by Sedo, an online marketplace for domain names and Web sites.
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More than 6,100 dot DE domain names were sold in 2008 for total revenue of $10.6 million. This compares to 5,000 dot DE domain names changing hands in 2007, bringing in total sales of $7.4 million.
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Indeed, the most expensive domain name that sold in 2008 was German. Kreditdot.de – meaning credit in German– which sold for more than $1.1 million.
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German domain name sales outpaced those of other leading European countries by a wide margin. 2009 has also seen a dramatic rise in dot DE extensions to become #2 in most registered domain extensions so far this year.
In term of dollars amount, this is actually more than any other geographic domain extension, although in term of number of sales this is less than very populous countries like india (.in) and China (.cn). This reflects the strength of the german economy as well as the importance of direct navigation and the mindshare of the local ccTLD in Germany.
A Bit of History
Germany internet name started as early as 1991, when the Internet department of the University of Dortmund started to issue .de domain names. In 1996, German Internet Providers founded the co-operative DENIC, as the central registry for .de domain names. They adopted a very liberal policy, similar to the policy for .com domain names. Anybody with an address in Germany is able to register a domain name, and for those who don’t, many registrars offer the possibility of providing a German address.Legal matters are very similar to the UDRP rules, with trademark rights usually having priority over the first-come-first-serve right of the domain holder. A few domain cases made it to the supreme court of Germany: in one rather bewildering decision, the court ruled that Mr. Shell had to give up the name Shell.de to the global oil company of the same name without any compensation.
In another decision, it was decided that descriptive domain names in general do not violate any law and that the first-come-first-serve principle usually can be applied. As a result, descriptive domain names are heavily traded on the German secondary domain market.
User behaviour
In the world of the German Internet users, the .de namespace is king. Almost all companies and private home pages run under a .de domain name. As a result, web sites operating with a .com domain name without owning the corresponding .de domain usually lose a lot of users from mistyping. In recent times, .info has become popular, but it is unlikely that the popularity will ever come close to that of .de.Direct navigation is also still quite popular in Germany. A lot of users tend to enter the search keyword into the browser and simply add “.de”. Therefore, descriptive domain names have high values in the secondary market.