Denic,the company behind .DE domain is approaching 16 million domain name registrations under .DE.This makes .DE one of the world's largest ccTLD .  

DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain name on 26 November 2010 and the 15 millionth .de domain name on April 18,2012.This means that in less than six months, almost 500,000 .DE domain names were registered .

     There are 15,734,742 .DE domains registered up to date,according to the most recent figures on DENIC's website.

     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 .(domain news)