Recital 110 Legitimate access to domain name registration data

The availability and timely accessibility of domain name registration data to legitimate access seekers is essential for the prevention and combating of DNS abuse, and for the prevention and detection of and response to incidents means an incident as defined in Article 6, point (6), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555;. Legitimate access seekers are to be understood as any natural or legal person making a request pursuant to Union or national law. They can include authorities that are competent under this Directive and those that are competent under Union or national law for the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences, and CERTs or CSIRTscomputer security incident response teams. TLD name registries and entities providing domain name registration services means a registrar or an agent acting on behalf of registrars, such as a privacy or proxy registration service provider or reseller; should be required to enable lawful access to specific domain name registration data, which are necessary for the purposes of the access request, to legitimate access seekers in accordance with Union and national law. The request of legitimate access seekers should be accompanied by a statement of reasons permitting the assessment of the necessity of access to the data.