Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Effective 16 November 2010, the central registry for .de domains, DENIC, will abolish the rule that forbids the Latin small letter sharp s to be used as an independent character in .de domain names. DENIC thus follows the revised standard for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNAbis). Since 4 August 2010, the IDNAbis standard allows the LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S – also known as "Eszett" or "sharp s" ("ß") – to be used as part of a domain name. Thus, domains such as "straße.de" (German for "street") can now be registered.
