Acceptable Use Policy

As of: June 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) supplements the Terms of Use and specifies which use of the service is permitted or prohibited. Violations may lead to immediate blocking of individual IP addresses or network ranges.

1. Permitted use

The service may be used free of charge by private individuals, families, schools, associations and smaller organisations – both for recursive DNS name resolution and for authoritative hosting of their own domains – as long as this happens within a customary, non-abusive scope.

2. Prohibited uses

The following is in particular prohibited:

  • using the service for unlawful purposes or for the commission, preparation or concealment of criminal offences;
  • DNS amplification or reflection attacks and other measures aimed at overloading or impairing third parties or the service itself;
  • DNS spoofing, cache poisoning or other attacks on the integrity of the DNS infrastructure;
  • resolving domains used for the operation of botnets, command-and-control infrastructure, phishing, malware or scam campaigns, to an extent or for a purpose that abuses the service;
  • circumventing rate limits, blocks or other protective measures;
  • automated mass queries without an apparent legitimate purpose (e.g. scraping, systematic probing of entire namespaces);
  • reusing the service as an upstream resolver for own public services or commercial offerings without express consent;
  • any use that is suitable for endangering the reputation, availability or legal position of the operator.

3. Special rules for DNS hosting

The following applies additionally to the authoritative hosting of your own zones:

  • only domains over which you are authorised to dispose may be hosted; hosting third-party or uncontrolled domains is prohibited;
  • DNS records may not be created for phishing, the distribution of malware, command-and-control infrastructure, sending spam, fraud or other unlawful purposes;
  • deliberately creating false or misleading records to deceive third parties is prohibited;
  • organisations and member permissions may not be used to circumvent the above rules;
  • the operator may block or delete affected zones, records, accounts or organisations at any time in case of violations.

4. Rate limits

To ensure operation, technical limits are applied per source IP. These limits may be adjusted at any time without notice. Queries exceeding the limits may be discarded, throttled or lead to a block.

5. Response to abuse

In case of suspected abuse, the operator reserves the right to:

  • block individual IP addresses or network ranges temporarily or permanently;
  • block or delete individual zones, accounts or organisations;
  • block or throttle certain query types or domains;
  • send complaints to the responsible network or abuse contacts;
  • in case of criminally relevant behaviour, file a criminal complaint and cooperate with authorities within the legally provided framework.

6. Reporting abuse

Reports of abuse of the service can be sent by e-mail to abuse@dremaxx.de. Processing takes place within the scope of available time and without entitlement to a response within a specific period.

See also: Terms of Use · Privacy Policy · Imprint