Dossier
Denic
Coverage of Denic in the Nexus archive.
- It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet
Denic, the registry for Germany's .de top-level domain, resolved a DNS blunder that crashed Germany's internet on Tuesday evening. The issue was related to Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and faulty DNSSEC signatures. Hundreds of thousands of domains were affected, including major websites such as Amazon and eBay.
- .de domains were 'down' for 2 hours
.de domains were down for 2 hours due to an incident, with a status update available on the DENIC status page and discussion on the news.ycombinator.com platform.