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by bierjunge 1341 days ago
It's the KIT (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, former Technical University of Karlsruhe) in south western Germany. IIRC they have the oldest computer science institute in the country and sent/received the first emails in Germany. So yes, they have some standing in the research community, but they renamed in 2008 or 2009 and still got a new .edu domain.