There is plenty of sound and legitimate reasons why, in certain cases, domain holder and website operator are not identical persons.

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. Normal

Since 6 December 2025, new legal requirements for the provision of domain registration data have been in force in Germany. The regulations have a direct impact on DENIC domain queries.