DAWA closed on 1 October 2026.
What now?

DAWA — dawa.aws.dk — was the backbone of Danish address integrations from 2013. It closed permanently on 1 October 2026 at 10:00 Danish time and now answers 410 Gone to every call. If your code still calls it, it is broken — switch now.

Why did DAWA shut down?

DAWA was only ever a stopgap — stood up to distribute address data before Datafordeleren existed — so its functionality has been consolidated back into Datafordeleren. Official source: the Klimadatastyrelsen notice: "DAWA lukker i sin helhed den 1. oktober 2026."

For developers this means: every integration that hits dawa.aws.dk stopped working on 1 October 2026. Datafordeleren has a completely different API form (GraphQL, OAuth2, enterprise agreement) — you can't just flip the base URL.

Some data was frozen even before that: Matriklen, GeoDanmark and DAGI stopped being refreshed on DAWA on 30 June 2026, and Danske Stednavne was not updated after September 2025. If you were mirroring those from DAWA, your copy has been stale since then.

Why the date moved once: KDS stated plainly that the shutdown slipped from 1 July to after the summer holidays because Adressevælgeren itself was delayed. The second date held — DAWA closed on 1 October 2026 at 10:00.

What died before the shutdown

DAWA shed data for two years before it closed. If your code relied on any of this, check that your replacement actually covers it:

Data	Gone since	Note
BBR	3.4.2024	Last data update was 16.12.2023 — stale for months before removal.
Zones	11.9.2024	Zone data had not been updated since March 2022.
Bulk-recipient postcodes	28.2.2025	Retired by Trafikstyrelsen 1.1.2025. Searches using one now find nothing — use the authoritative postcode.
WMS	14.1.2025	Only vejpunktlinjer were still served, temporarily, until the shutdown.

Source: Klimadatastyrelsen's own overview of phased-out DAWA functionality, dataforsyningen.dk/data/4924.

If you use /replikering, read this

DAWA's replication was an event stream: you polled /replikering/haendelser with a sequence number and got every change since. Datafordeleren's answer to it is entity-based file download — full files, refreshed daily. If your mirror needs change events, or needs to be fresher than once a day, that is not a migration, it is a redesign. Our /replikering keeps the sequence-number event model.

Which products are affected?

Timeline of the shutdown

Date	What happens
September 2025	Danske Stednavne stops being updated on DAWA. The endpoint kept answering — with frozen data.
30 June 2026	Matriklen, GeoDanmark and DAGI are no longer kept current on DAWA, due to changes on Datafordeleren.
1 October 2026	kl. 10:00 — DAWA closed in its entirety. Every service in the DAWA docs, plus the address WFS services, stopped responding — dawa.aws.dk and api.dataforsyningen.dk now answer 410 Gone.
Now	Datafordeleren (GraphQL/OAuth2) and KDS's Adressevælger are the official routes. Or us — unchanged REST, a base-URL swap away.

What to do today — 3 minutes

1. Get a free key: danadresse.dk/dashboard/signup (2,000 calls/month, no credit card).
2. Change the base URL in your code: dawa.aws.dk → api.danadresse.dk.
3. Add a header: X-Api-Key: dawa_live_….

That's it. No other code changes — we mirror DAWA's JSON shape 1:1.

# Before (DAWA)
curl 'https://dawa.aws.dk/autocomplete?q=Rådhuspladsen'

# After (Danadresse) — same response
curl 'https://api.danadresse.dk/autocomplete?q=Rådhuspladsen' \
     -H 'X-Api-Key: dawa_live_…'

FAQ — DAWA is closed

Do I lose my address IDs?

No. We use the same UUIDs as DAR (the Climate Data Agency's authoritative register). DAWA's id === our id. No database migration on your side.

What about the /replikering endpoint?

Our replication stream is native and live — event-based sync with senesteSekvensnummer, just like DAWA.

Can I test BEFORE I flip production?

Yes. We have both dawa_test_* keys (sandbox mode) and a migration CLI: npx @danadresse/migrate-cli scan ./src which scans your codebase for DAWA references.

Is Danadresse cheaper than DAWA?

DAWA was free because it was state-funded. We're free up to 2,000 calls/month with a free key. After that DKK 89/mo for 60,000 calls — cheaper than the alternatives.

Will DAWA come back?

No. The shutdown was postponed from 1 July to 1 October 2026 — and then it happened: since 1 October 2026 at 10:00 dawa.aws.dk answers 410 Gone. Official source: the Klimadatastyrelsen notice ("DAWA lukker i sin helhed den 1. oktober 2026").

Is it legal?

Address data is public (CC BY 4.0 from the Climate Data Agency). We have the same licensing basis DAWA had.