Denic,the company responsible of the administration of .DE extension,hit another major milestone : 15.5 million domains currently registered.The milestone was hit yesterday .

.DE is one of the largest ccTLD when one looks at the number of domain names registered per person. DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain name on 26 November 2010 .Every six inhabitants of the German Republic has registered a .de domain name and the number is constantly growing .

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 .

There are 15,501,750 .DE domain names registered up to date,according to the most recent figures on Denic's website.