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Gmail.de is not owned by Google, but by a German venture capitalist who runs a physical and electronic postal service called G-Mail.
Daniel Giersch, who named G-Mail after himself and applied for a German trademark as early as 2000, won a permanent injunction against Google earlier this year, preventing the company from offering Gmail.com email addresses [...]

VeriSign released the latest issue (PDF file) of its Domain Industry Brief. By the end of 2006, there were more than 120 million registered domains, which represents a growth of 32% over the previous year. In terms of registrations, .com remains the largest top level domain, followed by .de, .net, .uk and .org:

Ten months after .eu domains became available to the public the EU Registry (Eurid) celebrates the registration of the 2.5 millionth .eu domain. The .eu extension has long surpassed .us (1.19 million active domains) and .biz (1.6 million active domains) as well as all European country extension except .de (10.65 million active domains) and .uk [...]