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.
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 lot that is
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
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.
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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
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
What if artificial intelligence meets technical standards only, but no ethical ones? And how can big data be reconciled with the right to privacy? Issues like these and many more are dealt with in the sphere of ‘Internet governance’.
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