Registering .de domain

Do you have to reside in Germany?

[mykel79]

Hello!

I want to register a .de domain and am wondering - do you have to reside in Germany to do so? Or are the domains free to all nationalities? If the latter is the case, what registrar would you recommend?

I tried searching the forums, but found only old posts concerning this, maybe things have changed since then.

[ritch_b]

The info in this post [webmasterworld.com] still stands as valid! :)

R.

[Hagstrom]

...and since March 1st it has been possible to buy URLs with non-english letters - ö, ä and ü and 89(!) others.

(German text) h*ttp://www.denic.de/de/domains/idns/liste.html

[mykel79]

Thank you very much, I didn't find that post!

[ritch_b]

Hope it's of use! :)

It links to another post that mentions names of several companies who offer these domain registrations and also offer the 'local presence' that's required in many cases.

R.

[mykel79]

Yup, seems very useful!