The leaders are Berlin (988,795 domain names), Munich (630,403) and Hamburg (587,237). However, these cities are not the champions when it comes to per capita registrations but rather a comparatively small city (with a population of about 170,000) Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, takes the lead. The city, which was, by the way, the birthplace of famous writer Erich Maria Remarque, has 1,563 registered domain names with .DE extension per 1,000 residents. As for the federal states, North Rhine-Westfalia is the leader in terms of the number of registrations with 3,303,069 domain names.
The map also reveals that foreign registrants have been very active in .DE. Their share in the total number of names registered in the German ccTLD makes up 8.7 percent, which falls just short of 1.5 million names. The United States tops the list for the highest number of foreign registrants, followed by the Netherlands and the Russian Federation.
