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Request reason:

First, my account is more than 11 years old and I am not affiliated to a company, so I do not want to rename my account of course. I recently edited the page DNS hijacking and added a passage regarding the situation in Germany, because the situation in UK was already explained there. I described in a neutral way, that someone filed a criminal complaint against the Deutsche Telekom AG because of DNS hijacking. After that, the Deutsche Telekom stopped their DNS hijacking (after more then 10 years):

In Germany, in 2019 it was revealed that the Deutsche Telekom AG not only manipulated their DNS servers, but also transmitted network traffic (such as non-secure cookies when users did not use HTTPS) to a third party company because the web portal T-Online, at which users were redirected due to the DNS manipulation, was not (any more) owned by the Deutsche Telekom. After a user filed a criminal complaint, the Deutsche Telekom stopped further DNS manipulations.

The German press like Golem reported that, using the primary source – which I also provided in the Wikipedia article –, but also by simply asking the Deutsche Telekom AG for the reason they stopped their DNS hijacking. They confirmed that they stopped it, because the Bundesnetzagentur (National Network Agency) contacted them after the criminal complaint was filed by an internet user (which was me). The German prosecution department also initiated a judicial inquiry, same for the national data/privacy protection department.

So, there is no conflict of interests. Although it (unfortunately) was me who helped to stop the DNS hijacking after more then 10 years, I didn't write anything wrong into the article, and also nothing which could be considered as not neutral because I only noted the facts which are accessible to the public.

Decline reason:

if you are unwilling to change your username, we will not consider an unblock. Additionally, your account is five years old, not 11 as you claim. Nor have you addressed your relationship to elookon.de. Yamla (talk) 09:47, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

My German account is 11 years old, seems the english one is a different account. No, of course I'm not willing to change my username because there is no reason for that. The website elookon.de is my website, there I published the information about the German DNS hijacking incident. --ElooKoN (talk) 11:48, 24 July 2019 (UTC)