Since August 18, 2026, new legal requirements apply within the EU, aiming to facilitate and speed up cross-border access to electronic evidence used to investigate and prosecute criminal offences. As an online service provider, DENIC is in scope, too.
DENIC Executive Board Member Andreas Musielak has been re-elected as Chair of the Standing Committee on Strategic and Operational Planning (SOPC) of the Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) within ICANN for a second term.
New legal requirements will apply in Germany presumably from the 2nd quarter of 2025 which will also have an impact on the data disclosed via DENIC’s whois lookup.
UN Cybercrime Convention & digital human rights discussed the IG Community at the Jimmy Schulz Dinner with Tabea Rößner and Alexander Seger from the Council of Europe.
Final version of the Global Digital Compact, new EU Commission, expert report on AI and statements on digital policy in the USA and Russia – read in the latest DENIC IG Quarterly Report what has happened in Q3/2024.
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