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Bornheim near Bonn, May 26, 2010 - The domain management software DomiNIC (Domain Network Information Center) is celebrating its 15 year anniversary of deployment. The year 1995 marked the first commercial release of a software for the registration and administration of domains (e.g. ".de") that was written by inernet pioneer Sven-Holger Wabnitz. Today, DomiNIC is among the leading software packages for automated domain management. "Not a single bit of the original program code is still in use; the software has been rewritten completely from scratch several times in the meantime", Wabnitz points out, who is still leading the software maker to this day. Nowadays, domain registries and corporate clients can choose from two options: DomiNIC for Domains and DomiNIC for Brands. The list of customers ranges from major telecommunications companies to reputable brand owners. Sven-Holger Wabnitz ranks among the top entrepreneurs of the information and internet age in Germany. In 1994 the Association of Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD, today known as the Fraunhofer Insitute) appointed him to the board of directors of its German internet initiative (Telemarkt eG). This was still two years before the DENIC eG was founded as a registered cooperative of the German internet trade in order to become the official registry for the ".de" top level domain. When back then there were not even 100,000 ".de" domains, there are now well above 13 million domains with that ending. The former vision of an omnipresence of the domain name system (DNS) has long since turned into reality. Aside from continuously improving the DomiNIC software, Wabnitz and his team of 30 employees are also working on the future: The DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) standard which is currently in testing at DENIC is supposed to advance the internet to a whole new level of security.