.de domain availability checker
The .de domain is a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Germany, operated by DENIC and introduced in 1986.
Check whether any .de domain is available, with bulk lookups and WHOIS records for taken names. Type just the name and Naked Whois appends .de automatically.
About .de
.de is the country-code TLD for Germany, operated by DENIC, a non-profit cooperative based in Frankfurt. With roughly 17 million registrations, .de is the largest ccTLD in the world by volume and the second-largest TLD overall after .com.
The TLD historically required a local administrative contact (an Admin-C) physically present in Germany; that requirement was relaxed in 2019, though DENIC still requires a German-postal-address Admin-C for some scenarios. Pricing is regulated at the registry level and is low compared to most other ccTLDs.
The cultural assumption in Germany is that a business or institution will have a .de domain, with .com as either secondary or international-only. This is one of the few major markets where the local ccTLD genuinely outranks .com for domestic-facing brands.