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
Current happenings in the Internet governance context in November 2022:
At the G20 Summit in Bali on 16 November 2022, the leading industrialised nations and emerging economies committed themselves to further digital transformation. In the future, the sustainable UN development goals shall have a greater impact on how digital economy
DENIC passes re-certification audit for its Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) – ISO/IEC 22301 successfully again
DENIC eG as an operator of a critical infrastructure in Germany has been certified according to the international standards for an Information Security Management System (ISMS) – ISO/IEC 27001 and for a Business Continuity
Current happenings in the Internet governance context in September 2022:
On 26 September 2022, the ITU General Assembly, which is held every four years, was opened in Bucharest. On the agenda is the program for 2023 – 2027. The conflict between ICANN and ITU over domain name and IP address governance
Study finds .de to have the highest awareness, trust and registration values among German consumers
When choosing from the wealth of domain extensions, Internet users in Germany definitely prefer their own country code. This is the result of a survey, the market research institute YouGov carried out on behalf of
Current happenings in the Internet governance context in August 2022:
On the way to an IGF+, UN Secretary-General António Guterres named ten members on 15 August 2022 of the IGF Leadership Panel (ILP) he had announced in his Roadmap for Digital Cooperation (June 2020). The ILP is intended to give
In 2021, with the trend towards digitisation continuing, the number of domains registered under the German country code .de grew to exceed 17 million worldwide. Every year, the precise geographic distribution of .de domains is mapped in the annual regional domain statistics published by DENIC. The registry managing all domains
Developments in the Internet Governance Environment April to June 2022:
The Internet is increasingly getting drawn into the global geo-strategic conflicts of 2022. The war in Ukraine has accelerated the polarisation in the Internet governance discussion that has been emerging for years, and with it the process of a "
Today, enhancing your digital security is more important than ever: In mid-May, open source-based cybersecurity vulnerability database EUVD was made available to the general public by Enisa (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity). Next to vulnerability information from trustworthy sources, it also provides recommendations on dedicated remedial action., 13.05.2025