DNS Hackathon – welcome to join us on May 23–24 at Internetstiftelsen
Calling all DNS enthusiasts, developers, researchers, and engineers! Internetstiftelsen (.se), is thrilled to invite you to an in-person DNS Hackathon on May 23–24 2026.
The hackathon will take place right here at our offices in Stockholm. This is your opportunity to connect with fellow DNS enthusiasts, share ideas, and build innovative tools, visualizations, research prototypes, or enhancements to the DNS ecosystem. Whether you’re passionate about performance, privacy, security, analytics – or simply love the DNS protocol – this event is for you!
- Food, snacks and refreshments to be provided by Internetstiftelsen
- A social event may/will be planned on May 23rd
- Make your own conference t-shirt
What: Code and DNS!
Where: Stockholm, Sweden
Site: Internetstiftelsen’s offices at Hammarby Kaj 10D, Stockholm
When: May 23–24 2026
Who: DNS enthusiasts, professionals, developers and programmers
Price: free of charge
We will reply to all applicants as soon as possible. Early applications will be prioritized.
Topics so far
- Developing software for use in DNS anycast clusters (real-time threat- and performance-monitoring of servers, platform for deployment/troubleshooting)
- Making a DNS monitoring app inside a Kubernetes sidecar (monitor DNS behaviour inside a Kubernetes cluster)
- Working on EduDIG/Nerdig (a dig-like DNS lookup tool for learning about DNS, see [Nerdig](https://nerdig.examples.nu)
- Implementation of [Generalized NOTIFY](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomassen-dnsop-generalized-dns-notify/)
- Time series displays of ccTLD DNSSEC misconfiguration rate (based on OPENINTEL data)
- Time series displays of HTTPS misconfiguration (to compare TLS and DNSSEC failures)
- Next generation RPZ (continue work from [previous hackathon](https://codeberg.org/DNS-Hackathon-Fall-2025/rpz-ng ) )
You are not limited to the topics above and you are free to propose additional topics before or at the start of the hackathon.
