Press Releases

Since 14 May 2018, DENIC is Designated Escrow Agent for ICANN-accredited registrars, this way being the sole provider worldwide to offer registration data escrow on a cost-neutral basis, in compliance with European law.

You find them in agricultural regions and economic hotspots, in industrial parks as well as in nature reserves – domains with the German ending .de are registered virtually everywhere in Germany. Their precise distribution is mapped every year in the annual regional domain statistics published by…

In the future, DENIC will only record the contact details of the domain holder, two additional e-mail addresses as contact points for abuse reports and general and technical requests as well as the usual technical domain data.

Video footage of stimulating talks and debates of 2018 Domain Pulse in Munich soon online featuring, among others, futurologist Matthias Horx, former Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar and ZITiS President Wilfried Karl.

As newly approved Authorized New gTLD Data Escrow Agent DENIC offers, with immediate effect, both to ICANN-accredited registrars and registries an escrow service which fully complies with the European legal framework.