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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org
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J. Wunsch writes:
>freebsd.org.<country>
>
>> Do other countries have similar namespace conventions?
>
>The `de' domain does not have official second-level ``grouping''
>subdomains.  That doesn't mean we couldn't get freebsd.org.de
>registered, but as Jordan was mentioning: it will cost real money.

I remember that top-level domains (two char ISO or com, org, net etc.)
are explict not allowed as second-level DE domain. No change for any
*.org.DE.

PS: ``real money'' mean in Germany 500 US$/year. See http://www.nic.de

Wolfram