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 DENIC Forest Continues to Grow …
A special occasion deserves special actions – and a twin jubilee certainly belongs into that category. The German country code .de turns 35 this year, and the DENIC Cooperative celebrates its 25th anniversary.
In November, DENIC gave the starting signal for the "DENIC Forest&
DENIC, eco - Association of the Internet Industry and the City of Hamburg envisage to host the international congress of the tech community, politics, industry, and civil society, taking decisions on the core functions of the Internet.
* DENIC eG, eco Association and the City of Hamburg as joint hosts
* ICANN coordinates
A sustainable thanks from DENIC
Private individuals, organisations and associations, the sports club around the corner, the large trade union, the small business owner or freelancer and the international corporation – all of them rely on .de. The German country code for domains has been in existence since 1986, and from
Current happenings in the Internet governance context July to September 2021:
The discussions and happenings related to the evolution of Internet governance in the third quarter of 2021 reinforced the recent trends of a transforming global Internet governance ecosystem. The developments can be summarised in seven points.
1. The call
Thomas Keller joins the DENIC Executive Board as new full-time member
The management team of the central registry and technical operator of the German country code Top Level Domain .de, DENIC, is regrouping: With effect from 1 October 2021, Thomas Keller joins the DENIC Executive Board as new full-
An interview about million marks, growth factors and domain potentials
In mid-July, .de reached another milestone: The 17th million domain under the German country code was registered. A good occasion for an interview with Andreas Musielak, member of the board of the DENIC registry, about the current growth and
The 17th million domain with the ending .de was registered on 13 July 2021. The name of the milestone domain: melba-stoffkreation.de.
The domain holder, who is specialised in creating individual gifts, intends to set up a little online shop and a blog next to the website under the
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