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 national implementation of the EU's NIS2 Directive in Germany will bring about changes regarding the data output of DENIC's whois lookup service for .de domains.
In September, we and our subsidiary DENIC Services GmbH & Co. KG successfully completed the transition audits to the current version of the standard for information security management systems, ISO 27001. Our subsidiary has had its own certification since 2022, so both companies were audited separately for the transition.
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Topics November 2025: WSIS+20, EU “Digital Omnibus”, Digital Sovereignty Summit, as well as new UN decisions on AI, data governance, and cybersecurity.
Topics October 2025: WSIS+20, the UN Cybercrime Convention, the protection of minors, and debates on AI and cybersecurity dominated 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