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Update on the WHOIS query: What’s changing now

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.

Jan 19, 2026 1 min read

New Legislation: What is Changing about the Registration of .de Domains?

The national implementation of the EU's NIS2 Directive in Germanywill bring about changes regarding the new registration, transfer and amendment of holder data of .de domains.

Dec 19, 2025 4 min read

Crisis team exercise at DENIC – When things get serious, we're ready

Crisis management exercise at DENIC – Objective: a realistic simulation to test how we as a company would respond in an emergency situation.

Aug 21, 2025 2 min read

Q4/2019 - Executive Summary

Current happenings in the Internet governance context October to December 2019: The most important event in the global Internet governance discussion in the fourth quarter of 2019 was the 14th Internet Governance Forum in Berlin. Featuring 7,000 participants – 50 percent of these remote – more than 200 sessions, and a

Jan 2, 2020 10 min read

DENIC Makes Use of Newly Registered .de Domains Possible within Five Minutes

Incremental zone generation makes new registrations or changes to domain data globally available in next to no time To enable .de domains in the Internet to be used even faster, DENIC, the managing organisation and central registry of all domains under the country code .de, has introduced an optimised technical

Nov 28, 2019 1 min read

Our Contribution to a Secure Internet for All

To be integrative means to live openness - to be neutral means to value freedom - to be strong through the cooperation of many means to promote security: By being a domain registry organised in a unique way worldwide - as a not-for profit Cooperative - DENIC eG embodies a

Nov 22, 2019 7 min read

Security Initiative Successful at CENTR Awards

DNS Belgium, DENIC, nic.at, SIDN and SWITCH establish audit model for the domain industry Together with the registries in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria, DENIC was honoured at the CENTR Awards in the category "Innovation". On 8 October, the award ceremony for the "CENTR Member

Oct 17, 2019 1 min read

DENIC Makes Available Software Tool for High-Performance Measurement to Internet Community

DNSmeter Tool Handed Over to DNS OARC DENIC has developed a software tool for performance measurement of DNS servers and has now handed it over to DNS OARC, a platform for DNS developers and DNS operators. Here, the DNSmeter is now available to be used as open source. For more

Oct 10, 2019 1 min read

Q3/2019 - Executive Summary

Current happenings in the Internet governance context July to September 2019: In the third quarter of 2019, further impetus for the global Internet Governance discussion was provided by the G7 Summit in Biarritz (24 – 26 August 2019) and the 74th UN General Assembly (which started on 24 September 2019) in

Oct 2, 2019 10 min read

IGF-D: Gaining Speed In Shaping Digitalisation For Society At Large

At the Internet Governance Forum Germany co-organised by DENIC on 11 September in Berlin, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier emphasised that the political sector was dependent on the incentives and the expertise of non-state actors. Understanding 5G expansion as a strategic task, that is one of

Sep 12, 2019 3 min read

DENIC General Assembly 2026

30 April 2026 / Hybrid: Online and Frankfurt am Main

CLOUDFEST 2026

23 - 26 March 2026, Europa-Park Germany

ICANN85 Mumbai Community Forum

7 - 12 March 2026, Mumbai India

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How Standard Setters Run the Internet

We are able to interconnect so seamlessly on the Internet in large part thanks to Internet standards., 29.07.2025

European Vulnerability Database EUVD Kicked Off

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

D21-Digital-Index 2024/25

The German population still has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to digital technology. The annual report by Initiative D21 on the digital society provides a detailed overview., 10.03.2025

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