We are pleased to announce that Peter Thomassen, Founder and CTO of deSEC, is joining the Tech! stage at Nordic Domain Days 2026.

Peter has been quietly building one of the most important non-commercial pieces of internet infrastructure in Europe. deSEC, which he founded in 2014, is a Berlin-based non-profit providing free, security-focused DNS hosting with DNSSEC enabled by default for everyone. Alongside that, he serves as Managing Director at SSE Secure Systems Engineering, a German IT security consultancy, and he is a member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), appointed by the ICANN board. In short, he is one of those people who shows up in both the operational and the standards rooms, which is exactly why his session matters.

On Tuesday in our Tech! segment, Peter walks us through "New Guidelines on DNSSEC Automation (for Registries/Registrars)." A new IETF Best Current Practice document, expected to be published as an RFC later this year, provides operational guidance for automating DNSSEC configuration at the registry/registrar layer, in particular DS provisioning. The document tackles the timing, the locking, and the consistent implementation patterns needed across TLDs to lower deployment barriers and finally make secure, scalable DNSSEC automation actually work in practice.

If your day job involves DS records, registrar/registry automation, or you are simply tired of hearing "DNSSEC is hard, leave it off," this is the session to be in.

Welcome to Stockholm, Peter. We are looking forward to it.