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

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

DENIC, eco Association and the City of Hamburg as joint hosts of the 78th meeting of ICANN * Hamburg wins bid to host ICANN78 Annual General Meeting * DENIC eG, eco Association and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg expect around 2,500 participants from research, tech community, politics, economy and

18th edition of Domain pulse started today in Bonn with about 200 participants – Sascha Lobo keynote introduces to two days full of information and exchange about future perspectives of a digital world Covid-19 is not only a global plague but also a turbo catalyst for digitisation. How we can