2025 – a year of shared innovation
For DENIC, 2025 was a year of key decisions. The focus was on implementing the NIS 2 Directive.
The new composition of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board has further consolidated the development of our Cooperative, and Barbara Stolz, as the new Executive Board
During a routine DNSSEC key rollover on 5 May 2026, some non-validatable signatures were generated and distributed. As a result, validating resolvers were temporarily unable to successfully verify their DNS responses for .de domains. This led to noticeable restrictions in the accessibility of .de domains for approximately three hours.
The majority of domains classified as malicious fell into the phishing category (73.6 per cent), followed by spam (11 per cent), malware (7.8 per cent), pharming (4.5 per cent) and botnets (3.1 per cent)., 14.10.2026
In August, the ccNSO invited all ccTLD registries worldwide to take part in the third edition of the DNS Abuse Standing Committee (DASC) survey. The survey runs from August to September 2026., 14.10.2026
An EU-wide, uniform legal framework for mandatory direct cooperation between online service providers and law enforcement authorities in EU Member States, 14.10.2026