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In the General Assembly of CENTR held on 17 February in Budva, Montenegro, DENIC's CEO Dr. Jörg Schweiger has been elected, with immediate effect, as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

With our new revamped website we start into the twin-jubilee year 2016. 20 years of the DENIC Cooperative and 30 years of .de: A strong motivation for us to stay actively involved in shaping the future of the Internet.

At the public ICANN meeting in Dublin in October, DENIC CEO Dr. Jörg Schweiger was appointed member of ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom).

In the second edition of the Awards granted by the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR), the international jury selected DENIC as the winner in the Security category.

Striving to boost the use of DNSSEC and endeavouring to support cryptography based on elliptic curves (ECC), DENIC has extended its DNS Predelegation Check software (NAST) by the algorithms ECDSA and GOST. Providing the same level of security, the keys and signatures used with ECC are much shorter…