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Why 'der' in 'Danke der Nachfrage'?

I've read this in a reply to a mail:

Danke der Nachfrage!

Why is der there and why is not für die Nachfrage instead? And is it genitive or dative? (My only guess is that we are omitting a preposition, but I've never seen that in German).