DENIC is the abbreviation of Deutsches Network Information Center. DENIC is the central registry for all domains under the top level domain .de and is thus the world's third most important registry. The domain .de ranks third with 16 million registered domains behind .com and .cn. DENIC is a registered cooperative society (eG), with checkdomain as one of its members.
Nic.at is the central registry for all .at domains. It is organized as a limited company and is headquartered in Salzburg. Nic.at operates the database of all domain entries, as well as special nameservers for the entire .at top-level domain. Since 1998, NIC.at manages the data of all domains ending with .at, .co.at and .or.at. Currently there are about 1.2 million registered addresses.
DK-hostmaster is the responsible registry for all domains ending in .dk - so for the country code top level domain of Denmark. The Organization was founded in 1999 and is owned 100 per cent by the Danish Internet Forum (DIFO).
SIDN was founded in 1996 as a foundation and is responsible for the allocation and administration of the country code top level domain .nl. Today SIDN is responsible for more than 5 million .nl domain names and works with numerous partners worldwide, including checkdomain.
RU-Center is checkdomains contact in Russia. Founded in 2000, RU-Centers goal is to promote the internet in Russia. The company is now considered the leading registrar in Russia and Eastern Europe and is checkdomains cooperation partner for this geographic region.
The registry for Turkey is nicTR and is thus responsible for the administration of all .tr domains. nicTR has existed since 1991 and is until today a department at the Middle East Technical University. The organization operates the database of all domain entries, as well as special nameservers for all .tr-top level domains and ensures their consistent, worldwide accessibility.
EURid is the registry that manages the top level domain (TLD) .eu. EURid created, implemented, and supported the necessary technical infrastructure and databanks, which are necessary to make more than three million .eu domains accessible on the Internet. EURid operates with approximately 700 partners worldwide, including checkdomain.
Switch is the Swiss registry responsible for the registration and administration of the TLD .ch. Switch is an indipendent foundation that secures and regulates the internet access for Switzerland for more than 30 years now. Currently more than 2 million .ch domains are registered.
Afnic is the non-profit-organization responsible for the allocation and administration of the french country code top level domain .fr as well as top level domains for french overseas territories. Besides that Afnic is also engaged in supporting new top level domain registries.
Registro .it or nic.it is the registry for the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Italy since its launch in 1987. Today nic.it is responsible for more than 3 million registered .it domains and ensures their global availability.
Nominet is the registry for Great Britian. Since 1996 the non-profit-organization is responsible for .uk, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) of the United Kingdom. As of 2015 nominet is also responsible for .wales and .cymru the geographic top level domains for Wales.
DNS.be is a non-profit-organization founded in 1999 and is responsible for the administration of the Belgian top level domain .be as well as the new TLDs .brussels and .vlaanderen. DNS.be coordinates the registration of the domains and therefore stands in close contact with different partners worldwide including checkdomain. As of now DNS.be is responsible for about 1,6 million registered domains.
