Security Details
Security advice for secure communication with the Company Register, the Federal Gazette and the Publication Platform
Status: July 2025
General Security Advice
To protect the user of the internet offerings of the Company Register, the Federal Gazette and the Publication Platform from potential security risks, the Federal Gazette Publisher uses the most up-to-date security and encryption technology, so that confidential data is protected from unauthorised access during online transmissions and cannot be viewed by unauthorised persons.
Potential dangers on the internet today are:
- Viruses and Worms
Programmes that spread on their own or are sent by e-mail and can cause damages to your system. - Trojans
Programmes that are disguised as useful, but run in the background unnoticed by the user and may have functions that threaten security (e.g. retrieving passwords). - Phishing
apparently serious e-mails or internet addresses designed to get the user to giving out user data and passwords. - Hacker Attacks
Unauthorised persons gain access to your computer system over the internet. - Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Unauthorised persons between communication partners and have complete control over the transmission of data. Information can be viewed and manipulated at will.
For the electronic transmission of orders, a series of security measures were made on the part of the Federal Gazette publisher. So that the measures function efficiently, the user should make sure that their system is protected (e.g. by anti-virus programs, firewall) so that unauthorised access to the user's data is prevented.
The security symbol in the address bar of your browser must indicate encrypted data transmission.
When connecting to the Company Register, the Federal Gazette or the Publication Platform, click on the symbol at the beginning of the browser address bar. If ‘Connection is secure’ is displayed there, the transmission is secure. In Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, a lock symbol is displayed at the beginning of the address bar when the connection is secure.
You can recognise secure communication with the Company Register, the Federal Gazette or the Publication platform by the URL in the address bar of your browser and by the security certificate.
If the start page of Company Register, the Federal Gazette or Publication Platform is opened, pay attention to the URL, which is shown in the address line of the browser. This must begin with "https". The "s" stands for secure and guarantees that your data are transferred with encryption.
The address (URL) must contain the domain of the start page of the Company Register, the start page of the Federal Gazette or the start page of the Publication platform and appear as follows:
- For the Company Register:
The address begins as follows: "https://www.unternehmensregister.de/" - For the Federal Gazette:
The address begins as follows: "https://bundesanzeiger.de/pub/" - For the Publication platform:
The address begins as follows: "https://publikations-plattform.de/spwexsservlet/"
Important Notice
Please stop the connection immediately if the information above does not agree with what you have at your end and contact the Federal Gazette Publisher at service@bundesanzeiger.de.
- For the Company Register:
1. Retrieving the Certificate
You can call up the certificate by clicking/selecting the symbol at the beginning of the browser address bar to display the certificate information.
The certificate must be issued for the following internet address (URL):
- For the Company Register:
"www.unternehmensregister.de" - For the Federal Gazette:
"www.bundesanzeiger.de" - For the Publication platform:
"publikations-plattform.de"
2. Verifying the Certificate
The certificate must be issued by "GlobalSign".
Important Notice
If the browser indicates an erroneous or unknown certificate, stop the connection immediately and contact the Federal Gazette Publisher at service@bundesanzeiger.de.
- For the Company Register:
Contact
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