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.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA), which came into force in May 2024, aims to create fair competition in digital services and is primarily focussed on new obligations for so-called "gatekeepers" - the large systemically important platforms. The European Commission has so far defined 22 services from six companies
This year's Frankfurt event of the German youth program "Jugend hackt" was hosted by the youth center "Jugendhaus Riedberg" for the third time. 39 young IT enthusiasts developed six amazing projects with the support of 19 qualified mentors under the by now well-known
DENIC already supported a joint statement of the technical community on the Zero Draft of the Global Digital Compact, which was signed in April. In the meantime, a first revision has been published. Again, like-minded organisations from the technical community have joined forces to speak with one voice at
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