.de domain registration in Pakistan

Price and how to order

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Search any name on the availability checker, or go straight to the order form. We confirm availability before registering, you pay in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa, and the domain is registered in your own name.

Who uses .de

• Pakistani exporters selling to German buyers
• Software houses with clients in Germany
• Pakistanis living or studying in Germany
• Overseas Pakistani families with ties to Germany
• Brands protecting their name in the German market

A .de name tells a German customer that you take their market seriously. A Sialkot sports-goods exporter or a Lahore software house that bills clients in Germany can run a German-language site on a .de name while keeping its .pk or .com for the rest of the world. Because DENIC checks that your name servers are working before it delegates the name, and may later ask your registrar to verify your name and address, give us your exact CNIC or SECP name and a street address when you order. We confirm the name is free, register it in your own name through a registrar, and aim to file on the same working day your rupee payment arrives by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa.

Eligibility and rules

Who may register: Open to anyone, anywhere: DENIC's FAQ for applicants says individuals or institutions with legal capacity may register even if they are not located in Germany. One condition applies after registration: under section 3(4) of the DENIC Domain Terms, a holder not domiciled in Germany must, within two weeks of a request from DENIC, name a representative in Germany with a full postal address (a PO box is not enough) to receive official and court documents.

• Length: 1 to 63 characters before the .de. For names with special letters the 63 limit is counted on the punycode (ACE) form (DENIC Domain Guidelines, section V(2)).
• Characters: letters a to z, digits 0 to 9 and hyphens; upper and lower case are treated the same; a name may not start or end with a hyphen, nor have hyphens in both the third and fourth positions (Guidelines, section V(1)).
• IDN: 93 additional Latin letters are allowed, including the German umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and the sharp s (ß). Only Latin script is accepted, so lookalike characters from Cyrillic, Greek or other scripts are refused (DENIC IDN FAQ; Guidelines Annex).
• Holder data and verification: DENIC records the holder's full name (for a company, with its legal form), a street address (a PO box alone is not enough), an e-mail address and a phone number; since May 2018 it no longer records an Admin-C (Guidelines, section VI; DENIC General FAQ). No ID is uploaded at registration, but under NIS-2 and the German BSI Act DENIC checks holder data for completeness and plausibility and compares addresses with external sources. If it cannot confirm the data, your registrar is asked to verify it, which can mean showing an ID card or passport, documents or a video or postal check. DENIC's deadlines are 5 days (the domain is taken offline the day after) or 76 days (the contract is ended and the name released). This applies to new and existing domains (DENIC holder data verification pages).
• Name servers must work first: before DENIC delegates a .de name it checks for at least two reachable name servers that answer authoritatively for the zone, at least one on IPv4, and at least one with an IP address not shared by the others (DENIC predelegation check, section 2.1). As an alternative, NSentry lets up to five A, AAAA or MX records sit directly in the .de zone with no name servers of your own (DENIC name server and NSentry page). When an application goes through a DENIC member, the contract ends automatically if the technical set-up is not completed within four weeks (Guidelines, section IV(2)).
• Deletion, transfer and WHOIS: a deleted name enters a Redemption Grace Period that runs until the 31st day after registration ended, during which only the last holder (or someone they name) can restore it; a provider change uses an AuthInfo password that is valid for 30 days and can be used once; DENIC publishes no fixed transfer-lock period; individual holders' details are not shown in the public WHOIS, while company holders' details are (Guidelines, sections III(3) to III(5) and VII(3); Domain Terms, section 1(4)).

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